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Merely Quotes by Marcel Proust
- A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
- As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect…
- An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
- It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
- The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
- Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without…
- Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does…
- To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition…
- 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…
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