For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength — we are able in the end both to dominate the first and t… - Marcel Proust
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For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength — we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic.
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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
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Bernard d'Algouvres
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There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.
Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.
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We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
