What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. Marcel Proust Read Quote
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. Marcel Proust Read Quote
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life. Marcel Proust Read Quote
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. Marcel Proust Read Quote
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. Marcel Proust Read Quote
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. Marcel Proust Read Quote
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. Marcel Proust Read Quote
