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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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Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.…
— Simon Barnes
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If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual…
— Edith Schaeffer
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O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
— Phyllis McGinley
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Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel…
— Marcel Proust
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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain…
— Kristin Cashore
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"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow,…
— Garth Nix
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The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work…
— John Dewey
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I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.
— Robert Lansing
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