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Instrument Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,…
- Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader…
- Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without…
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. — Francis of Assisi
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton
- Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a… — Ansel Adams
- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- My body is an instrument for me to use. — Emmanuelle Beart
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground… — Walter Benjamin