All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. - Marcel Proust

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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

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About Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Otto Wegener (Public domain / CC0)

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Alternative Names: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust • Proust • Valentin Louis Georges Eugéne Marcel Proust • Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugéne-Marcel Proust • Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust • Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugene-Marcel Proust • Bernard d'Algouvres • Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.
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