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Firsts Quotes by Marcel Proust
- I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the…
- 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…
- Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many…
- 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…
- Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
- For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the…
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