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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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Popular Vases quotes from across the collection:
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
— Malcolm De Chazal
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The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.
— Pierre Cardin
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower…
— Vita Sackville-West
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Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like…
— Wallace Stevens
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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
— Francois Rabelais
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A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true…
— John Loengard
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There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I…
— Edouard Boubat
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If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died…
— Jay McInerney
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When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture...…
— Seth Godin
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Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not…
— Elaine Stritch
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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
— Amy Hempel
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