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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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Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one…
— Cesar Chavez
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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them,…
— William Buckland
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I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who…
— Ronald Reagan
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It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley…
— Ronald Reagan
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We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.
— Daniel Ek
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We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and…
— Maria Montessori
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If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that…
— Bertrand Piccard
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The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as…
— Mortimer Adler
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In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of…
— Carl Jung
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We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be…
— Madison Grant
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our…
— Malcolm X
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