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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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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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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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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