Marcel Proust

" We become moral when we are unhappy. "
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Suffering
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" Love is a reciprocal torture. "
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" Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. "
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" Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. "
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" Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. "
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Pleasure , Pursuit , Humanity
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" Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. "
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" Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. "
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" Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees "
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Marcel Proust
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10-07-1871 19-11-1922 Novelist citation
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