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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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I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness…
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The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the…
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The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the…
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing…
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons…
— Ruth Pitter
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The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to…
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Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given…
— Paul Cezanne
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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly,…
— Virginia Woolf
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My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place…
— Wally Lamb
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Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.
— Octave Mirbeau
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The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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