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Perhaps Quotes by Marcel Proust
- No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days…
- We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our…
- Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary…
- There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
- Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without…
- Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
- Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases…
- Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and…
- The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who…
- These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
- Had I been less resolved to work, I would perhaps had made an effort to begin immediately. But since my resolution was formal and before…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun