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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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You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.
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Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born,…
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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Be not the slave of your own past.
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Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for…
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Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
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Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a…
— Geoffrey Barraclough
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We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond…
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You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their…
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