Quotes by Marcel Proust

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How would I like to be? - as the people I admire would want me...

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Where would I like to live? - ... where love would always be shared...

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What do I hate the most? - The evil in me...

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How would I like to die? - Better and beloved.

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For the writer, style is not a matter of technique, but of worldview.

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A long time must pass before we recognize in the physiognomy of a writer the model which bears the name of "great talent," in our museum of general ideas.

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We all stand before the novelist as slaves before the emperor: with a single word he can set us free. Thanks to him, we lose our old condition, to know that of the general, the weaver, the singer, the country gentleman, to know the rustic life, the game, the hunt, the hatred, the love...

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Truth is not imposed from without on minds which he must first make resemble the mind in which he was born.