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Our Own Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds…
- A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own…
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see…
- It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
- Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
- It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a…
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many…
- To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition…
- What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From…
- And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect…
- When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates…
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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann