01c. 1896 ADIt is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
02c. 1896 ADPeople wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
03c. 1896 ADPeople can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
04c. 1896 ADThe opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
05c. 1896 ADAt the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
07c. 1896 ADThere can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
08c. 1896 ADThere can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
09c. 1896 ADThat which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour but that which we have forgotten having said or even what we never said will cause laughter even into the next world.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
10c. 1896 ADThe time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up the rest.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
12c. 1896 ADCertainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
14c. 1896 ADA powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
15c. 1896 ADAs long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
17c. 1896 ADHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
18c. 1896 ADHappiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
19c. 1896 ADThree-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
20c. 1896 ADLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
21c. 1896 ADTime passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
23c. 1896 ADWe 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.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
24c. 1896 ADIllness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.Marcel Proust / quote ↗
