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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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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to…
— Jean Cocteau
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...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
— William Booth
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It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse…
— Charles E. Blake
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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we…
— Jean Baudrillard
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He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at…
— Roberto Assagioli
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If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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In randori, one must search out the opponent's weaknesses and be ready to attack with all the resources at his disposal the…
— Kano Jigoro
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To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have…
— Peter Drucker
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He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal.
— Charles Spurgeon
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