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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

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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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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

~Marcel Proust

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

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Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: July 10th, 1871

Died: November 18th, 1922

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