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Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugne-Georges Proust (July 10, 1871 November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction consisting of seven volumes published over 14 years (the last three volumes were published posthumously). · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

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"Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions"

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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."

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"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

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"There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind."

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"For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill."

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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

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"A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped."

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"The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement."

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"The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity."

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