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.
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.Marcel Proust
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.
Marcel Proust
I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
Marcel Proust
It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is the beginning of beauty.
Marcel Proust
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
Marcel Proust
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
Marcel Proust
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