Quote by Marcel Proust
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the p

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 habit fills up what remains. – 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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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust

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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust

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Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. – Wilder Penfield

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Cease, warring thoughts, and let his brain
No more discord entertain
But be smooth and calm again. – James Shirley

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Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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Patience is passion tamed. – Lyman Abbott

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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. – Oliver Goldsmith

I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years. – Vicente Fox

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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. – Isabel Allende

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