Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.Marcel Proust
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.Marcel Proust
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.Marcel Proust
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.Marcel Proust
