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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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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely…
— Thomas Piketty
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Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he…
— Russell Baker
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Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are…
— Unknown Author
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When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity…
— Elena Kagan
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Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In indolent vacuity of thought.
— William Cowper
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A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of…
— Misha Collins
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Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a…
— Marcel Proust
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
— Tennessee Williams
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
— George Steiner
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