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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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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would…
— Samuel Butler
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The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the…
— John Nelson Darby
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In…
— J P Donleavy
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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability…
— Mother Teresa
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,…
— Samuel Beckett
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for…
— Unknown Author
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in…
— Emile Zola
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of…
— Lysander Spooner
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When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for…
— David McCullough
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