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"...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty."
Memory
"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
People
"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
Experience
"And so too, in later years, when I began to write a book of my own, and the quality of some sentences seemed so inadequate that I could not make up my mind to go on with the undertaking. I would find the equivalent in Bergotte. But it was only then, when I read them in his pages, that I could enjoy them; when it was I myself who composed them, in my anxiety that they should exactly reproduce what I had perceived in my mind's eye, and in my fear of their not turning out "true to life," how could I find time to ask myself whether what I was writing was pleasing!"
Creativity
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Happiness
"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."
Nature
"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity."
Psychology
"People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked."
Emotion
"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."
Love
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time
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"An odd thing souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now."
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Personal Development
"...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty."
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Personal Development
"Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?"
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Personal Development
"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"
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Personal Development
"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."
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Personal Development
"Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration."
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"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
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Personal Development
"It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a too-small cage, and now would simply scatter. And that would be the end of that. Everything that had happened would be sucked away into memory and vapour, as though it hadn't even happened at all."
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Personal Development
"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
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Personal Development
"Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance."
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