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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.»
«What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.»
«The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.»
«Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.»
«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.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Time
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in practice, revolves, undisturbed
«People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.»
«As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral»
«The true paradises are the lost paradises.»
«The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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claimed, flaunt, flaunted, flaunting, increasing, matched, sensitiveness, sufferings
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