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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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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where…
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey…
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Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.
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The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far…
— Albert J. Nock
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The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing…
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The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical…
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The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced…
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[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the…
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You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.
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