Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: british
- Born: November 28, 1864
- Died: January 1, 1912
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For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.
Marcel Proust