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

Quote by Marcel Proust

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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...

Don't you ever wonder maybe if you took a left turn instead of a right...

Don't you ever wonder maybe if you took a left turn instead of a right...

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...

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.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

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...

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...

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of...

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of...

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...

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the...

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the...

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom...

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom...

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...

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

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

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

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;...

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter...

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter...

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as...

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as...