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Quote by Marcel Proust
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – Marcel Proust

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Every reader finds himself. The writers work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. – Marcel Proust

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust

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People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1841

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Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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