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Marcel Proust Quotes: The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
         

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.


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When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.



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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.



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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.



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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.



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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.





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This page presents the quote "The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.". Author of this quote is Marcel Proust. This quote is about habits, set-ways, behavior,.