Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Quote by Marcel Proust

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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.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

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...

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...

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners...

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners...

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...

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...

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.

Our passions shape our books. Repose writes them in the intervals.

Our passions shape our books. Repose writes them in the intervals.

It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be...

It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be...

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...

The only paradise is paradise lost

The only paradise is paradise lost

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...

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

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...

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what...

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what...

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself

Just because a man and woman sleep in the same bed doesn't mean they have...

Just because a man and woman sleep in the same bed doesn't mean they have...

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.