The literary figure who looms largest in False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.Marcel Proust
The moments of the past do not remain still they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
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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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