The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Quote by Marcel Proust

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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with...

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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;...

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

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

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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...

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...

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint,...

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint,...