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Moment Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their…
- 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…
- Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet…
- We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording…
- The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when…
- It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
- 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…
- But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on…
- ...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..
- The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were…
- Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
- There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
- At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop…
- To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine…
- In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would…
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