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Marcel Proust: 'Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.'

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Marcel Proust: 'It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.'

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Marcel Proust: 'The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.'

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Marcel Proust: '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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Marcel Proust: 'The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.'

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Marcel Proust: 'It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.'

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Marcel Proust: 'In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.'

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Marcel Proust: 'If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.'

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Marcel Proust: 'There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.'

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Marcel Proust: 'The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.'

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Honore de Balzac: 'Love is a game in which one always cheats.'

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