MPMarcel Proust

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Marcel Proust

Life dates: 1871 AD — 1922 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1896 AD

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

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02c. 1896 AD

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

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03c. 1896 AD

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

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04c. 1896 AD

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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05c. 1896 AD

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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06c. 1896 AD

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

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