Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide … - Marcel Proust

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

Marcel Proust

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

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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.

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

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