We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Quote by Marcel Proust

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination

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...

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...

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...

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are...

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are...

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...

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion...

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion...