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Before Quotes by Marcel Proust
- A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on…
- The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it....
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see…
- A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have…
- A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
- The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men…
- And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was…
- In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the…
- Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is…
- What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From…
- And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect…
- Had I been less resolved to work, I would perhaps had made an effort to begin immediately. But since my resolution was formal and before…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood