Our vanity, our passions, our ...

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
 Marcel Proust

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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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 Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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 Marcel Proust
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
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 Marcel Proust
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.
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 Marcel Proust
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
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 Marcel Proust