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Created on 2007-09-17 02:52:00 (#13834337), last updated 2008-10-07
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Basic Info| Name: | proustian4eva |
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| Birthdate: | 1984-02-27 |
BioMy roommate said that MySpace wasn't intellectual enough for me . . .
The following quotes by Marcel Proust reveal why I choose to call myself a Proustian (4eva):
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"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 this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."
"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"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."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
"It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
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He's a bit like Wilde, though not nearly as whimsical.
The following quotes by Marcel Proust reveal why I choose to call myself a Proustian (4eva):
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"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 this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."
"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"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."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
"It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."
"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."
"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness."
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He's a bit like Wilde, though not nearly as whimsical.
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