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Letter "M" » Marcel Proust Quotes
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«The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains»
«We become moral when we are unhappy.»
«We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.»
«The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.»
«There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Memory,
Men
| Keywords:
expunge, expunged, gladly, in a way, unpleasant
«We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.»
«We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.»
«It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
destined, impel, impelled, impelling, impels, irrevocable, state of mind
«The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter»
«Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account»
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