Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
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Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.Marcel Proust
A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.
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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.
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Love is a reciprocal torture.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains
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