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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 appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,…
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
— Seneca the Younger
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The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form…
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
— Catullus
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If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce…
— Marcel Boulestin
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The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes…
— Ghada al-Samman
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Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have…
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The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into…
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're…
— Calvin Trillin
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