Where writing is concerned, one is scrupulous, one examines things very closely, one rejects everything that is not the truth. But when it is only a matter of living, one ruins oneself, makes oneself ill, kills oneself, for lies.
 Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again (1927). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source Finding Time Again
Topic truth killing
Date 1927
Language English
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Note Translated by Ian Patterson
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