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State Quotes by Marcel Proust
- We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
- 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…
- In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
- To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it…
- It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
- All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
- 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…
- This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say…
- It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila