Quote by Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust

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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. – Marcel Proust

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. – Marcel Proust

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How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you. – Dan Reiland

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Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others. – John Mason Brown

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I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight… – Ella Baker

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Charm is more than beauty. – Yiddish Proverb

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