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.

Quote by Marcel Proust

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A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion...

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion...

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

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...

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual...

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual...

Dreaming only makes reality seem worse!

Dreaming only makes reality seem worse!

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going...

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going...

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...

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...

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them

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

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

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

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

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it...

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it...

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...

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we...

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions 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...

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...

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...

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

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...

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...