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Marcel Proust has 315 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,…
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians…
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy,…
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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening…
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I'm just like a giant candy cane, the ladies want to lick me all over.
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I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get…
— W.C. Fields
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Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as…
— Bernice L. McFadden
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He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it…
— Peter Høeg
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The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.
— Joseph Addison
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You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
— Casey Stengel
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For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
— Annette Funicello
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Experience is the cane of the blind.
— Jacques Roumain
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Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol…
— Jacques Loeb
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