What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
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Aphorisms by Marcel Proust
You can find this author also in Humor and in Quotes for Every Occasion.
In this way, the mansions arranged along either bank of the canal made one think of objects of nature, but of a nature which seemed to have created its works with a human imagination.
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
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We become moral when we are unhappy.
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
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