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Essential Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
- To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each…
- I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the…
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