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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ↗

— Quintilian

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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Love is space and time measured by the heart. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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