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Love is space and time measured by the heart. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ↗

— 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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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