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1 " He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.'That's where everything starts', he'd say. 'Both heaven and hell. "
― Céleste Albaret , Monsieur Proust
2 " He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.That's where everything starts, he'd say. Both heaven and hell. "
3 " M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he had left his heart in other people's books, and all that remained was dryness. One day I asked him how he came to know so much. He said, 'Not by being such a handsome young man as you. I wasn't in demand, and instead of going out I studied and learned'. "
4 " You will close your eyes. And listen carefully . . . . You must learn to listen carefully when people talk to you about their death. We each carry our own death within us, and we feel when it is there. "
5 " speaking of Proust: “The fact is he didn’t care much for children – which is strange when you think about how he had an almost religious feeling for his own childhood. ‘I like looking at children’, he used to say, ‘but not spending time with them "
6 " He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood."That's where everything starts," he'd say. "Both heaven and hell. "
