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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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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
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We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for…
— Bill Russell
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Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly…
— Janet Morris
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will…
— James Dobson
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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their…
— Robert Fisk
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Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately…
— Joan Blades
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When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if…
— Marcel Proust
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Every day, I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people who touch us. When you die, it does…
— Stuart Scott
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Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us.
— Stuart Scott
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We all have angels guiding us...They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands...What will bring…
— Sophy Burnham
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Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move…
— Jamake Highwater
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