Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments

Quote by Marcel Proust

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We become moral when we are unhappy.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it,...

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it,...

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it...

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and...

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from...

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from...

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having...

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having...

The only paradise is paradise lost

The only paradise is paradise lost

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...

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...

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we...

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their...

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their...

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in...

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in...

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...

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...

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

The passion for setting people right is in itself an inflictive disease.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an inflictive disease.

Winners are not born, they are forged in the fires of passion.

Winners are not born, they are forged in the fires of passion.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...