Proust

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    A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    A few years later, I would have answered, “I never repeat anything.” That is the ritual phrase of society people, by which the gossip is reassured every time.
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    I was able to believe for years that going to Madame Swann’s was a vague chimera that I would never attain; after having passed a quarter of an hour there, it was the time at which I did not know her which became to me a chimera and vague, as a possible destroyed by another possible.
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)