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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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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor…
— Joseph Addison
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In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of…
— Milarepa
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft…
— Winfield Scott
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When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
— Antisthenes
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
— Margaret of Valois
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us…
— Unknown Author
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We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and…
— Ryan Holiday
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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
— Epictetus
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...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from…
— Deepak Chopra
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It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime…
— Unknown Author
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