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Marcel Proust

"The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination."

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"The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination."

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Donna Grant

"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

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Donna Grant

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

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Donna Grant

"Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is."

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Donna Grant

"Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts."

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Donna Grant

"If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed."

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Donna Grant

"Faeces by any other name would smell as gross."

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Donna Grant

"In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons."

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Donna Grant

"Reality is perceptual misinterpretation. To change reality, change your perception."

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Donna Grant

"Many people still feel so scared about spirit or ghost, not yet realizing that there are so many unidentified living creatures on this planet earth which might be even more dreadful."

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Donna Grant

"Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don't. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront."

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Marcel Proust
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

Time

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Marcel Proust
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

Grief

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Marcel Proust
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

Wisdom

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Marcel Proust
"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."

Lifestyle

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Marcel Proust
"The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism, they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves."

Psychology

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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."

People

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Marcel Proust
"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."

Debate

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Marcel Proust
"And so too, in later years, when I began to write a book of my own, and the quality of some sentences seemed so inadequate that I could not make up my mind to go on with the undertaking. I would find the equivalent in Bergotte. But it was only then, when I read them in his pages, that I could enjoy them; when it was I myself who composed them, in my anxiety that they should exactly reproduce what I had perceived in my mind's eye, and in my fear of their not turning out "true to life," how could I find time to ask myself whether what I was writing was pleasing!"

Creativity

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Marcel Proust
"Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?"

Happiness

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Marcel Proust
"That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them, is a fact which is perpetually demonstrated in daily life."

Communication

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