A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

Quote by Marcel Proust

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Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware...

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware...

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less...

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less...

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as...

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as...

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which...

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which...

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of...

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of...

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be...

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be...

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure...

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure...

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they...

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they...

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions

Dreaming only makes reality seem worse!

Dreaming only makes reality seem worse!

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself...

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself...

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot...

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot...

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us...

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually....

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually....

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we...

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we...

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.