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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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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
— Jean Burden
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot…
— Champfleury
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the…
— Amy Hempel
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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.
— H. L. Mencken
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We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I…
— Jenny Diski
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You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already…
— Unknown Author
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Women with whiskers... its a bummer.
— Phil Robertson
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And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.
— Murray Walker
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows…
— Alexander Smith
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows…
— Alexander Smith
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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.
— Lincoln Chafee
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