Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.Marcel Proust
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Marcel Proust
Cannot come, lie follows.
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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
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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