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Day Quotes by Marcel Proust
- There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person…
- The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
- 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.
- For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially…
- These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
- What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through…
- ...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we…
- 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…
- 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…
- Had I been less resolved to work, I would perhaps had made an effort to begin immediately. But since my resolution was formal and before…
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