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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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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
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I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of…
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There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
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Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
— Chris Martin
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History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full…
— Mark Slouka
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean..…
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I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you…
— Umberto Eco
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If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a…
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