Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
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Aphorisms by Marcel Proust
You can find this author also in Humor and in Quotes for Every Occasion.
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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A woman is of greater service to our life if she is in it, instead of being an element of happiness, an instrument of sorrow, and there is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Desire)
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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