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World Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more…
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds…
- The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
- Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works…
- There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us…
- We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot…
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see…
- The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
- A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have…
- There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving…
- Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
- It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a…
- Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different…
- The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our…
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many…
- Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them;…
- We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,…
- No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a…
- We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,…
- The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were…
- To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
- Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the…
- Everything great that we know has come from neurotics. never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach