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Alone Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works…
- As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect…
- Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different…
- ...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the…
- I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,…
- But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more…
- What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through…
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…
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- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
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- We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld