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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

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. – Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. – 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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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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Cease, warring thoughts, and let his brain
No more discord entertain
But be smooth and calm again. – James Shirley

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