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Believe Quotes by Marcel Proust
- We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
- We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually…
- I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first…
- But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are…
- For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially…
- To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition…
- So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are…
- For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of…
- His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness
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