Desire Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image ““Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.”” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Desires Desires Like Impossible Jean Desires Love Love Concentrated Love Does Men Love Men-in-love
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“They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities, but its own talents. Don't be afraid to do something just because it's impossible.” — Kobi Yamada Copy Share Image
“However much he may tell her he loves her and thinks her beautiful, his loving gaze could never console her. Because the gaze of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn’t understand… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
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“To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it… — D.E. Sievers Copy Share Image
“I had found what most spent their lives searching for in countless partners and endless relationships. He was the missing piece, complementing and completing… — Genna Rulon Copy Share Image
“For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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