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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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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it…
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A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state…
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and…
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In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable;…
— Ada Lovelace
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The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state,…
— Oscar Micheaux
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Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by…
— Paul Rusesabagina
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I…
— Philip Yancey
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I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually…
— Joseph Addison
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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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Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how…
— Daniel Defoe
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