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«Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
affectionate, affirm, display, extraordinarily, In the Garden, occupations, perversities, perversity, suave, supple
«The only paradise is paradise lost»
«Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Life,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
constantly, contain, intonation, intonations, Philosophy of, telling
«The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes»
«People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
bacilli, bacillus, cholera, comma, commas, comma bacillus, insignificant, stricken, surprised
«Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.»
«Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, agencies, appropriate, collaborator, collaborators, grounds, lackey, lackeys, observing, permits, reasoned, reasoning, revealing, subtle, superiority
«For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
doctors, illness, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, microbe, microbes, provoke, provokes, thousand times, virus, viruses
«It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions»
«Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Choice,
Quality
| Keywords:
advantages, chose, deliberations
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