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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
— Toni Morrison
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Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but…
— Paulo Coelho
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By…
— Gerhard Richter
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Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for…
— Rumi
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Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
— Mark Doty
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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell.…
— Edith Sitwell
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My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...
— Gerhard Richter
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
— Marcel Proust
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You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.
— Rick Riordan
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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and…
— Primo Levi
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities,…
— Charles Dickens
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