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Time Quotes by Marcel Proust
- If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of…
- I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the…
- Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
- I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
- Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a…
- In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which…
- The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us.....
- The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
- When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as…
- The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
- There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
- If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
- Love is space and time measured by the heart.
- Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
- 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.
- Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
- People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
- 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…
- 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…
- There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing…
- The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men…
- For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among…
- May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now,…
- The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were…
- But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more…
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