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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 think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.
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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that…
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America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from…
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This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was…
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It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes,…
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A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.
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