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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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises;...

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises;...

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...

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

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

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

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

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in...

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in...

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...

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire...

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire...

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

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...

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...

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or...

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or...

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not...

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not...

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....

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 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...

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 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.

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...

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...

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.