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Past Quotes by Marcel Proust
- We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it…
- The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future…
- I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst…
- Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!
- The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.
- Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
- But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more…
- 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…
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach