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Life Quotes by Marcel Proust
- We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it…
- Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
- 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,…
- The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
- I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst…
- Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and…
- The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are…
- We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot…
- The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried…
- Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they…
- It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that…
- There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person…
- We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is…
- Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make…
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
- There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of…
- The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our…
- In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not…
- Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place…
- Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases…
- People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but…
- Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases…
- Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle