The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

Quote by Marcel Proust

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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...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

Dreaming only makes reality seem worse!

Dreaming only makes reality seem worse!

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination

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...

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...

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...

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one,...

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one,...

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...

The only paradise is paradise lost

The only paradise is paradise lost

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...

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...

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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

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 that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware...

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware...

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...

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not...

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not...