Marcel Proust

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• Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

  • Time
  • Truth & Lies

• In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

  • Love

• Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

  Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured (1927), Ch. III: “An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes”

  • Happiness

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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