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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 test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it…
— Stanley Kubrick
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As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of…
— Pope John Paul II
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Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep…
— Nilakanta Sri Ram
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of…
— E. M. Forster
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our…
— William Dean Howells
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
— Marcel Proust
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a…
— Kristin Armstrong
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Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we…
— Judith McNaught
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Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the…
— Rick Yancey
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When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.
— Shannon Hale
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