Marcel Proust

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and read more

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.

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that read more

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to read more

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

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as read more

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.