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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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Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is…
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I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.
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I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and…
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I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from…
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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice…
— Marcel Proust
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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont…
— Robert Littell
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was…
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