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• We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
  -- Marcel Prou...
• A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
  Marcel Prou...
• Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
  -- Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove...
• It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap. -- Marcel Duchamp
• SAN FRANCISCO: Marcel Proust editing an issue of Penthouse.
• Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in The Holiday Seaso
  hat very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall....
• An absence, the decline of a dinner invitation, an unintentional coldness, can accomplish more than all the cosmetics and beautiful dresses in the world.
  -- Marcel Prou...
• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy
  for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselve...
• It's all so painfully empty and lonesome... I don't think I can stand any more of it.
  .. the whole dreadful way we are born, die, and are never missed....