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Marcel Proust — Portrait after a picture by Otto Wegener (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Marcel Proust

French novelist, critic and essayist

1871–1922

43 quotes, most often on Love, Women and Happiness.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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.
Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919), Ch. I: “Madame Swann at Home”
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