Flotsam Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image “Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flotsam Great minds Masterpiece Mind Psychology
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau -… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Masterpieces of love don't come from an easy ride they come from working hard dedication and knowing what you want. — Pajani Copy Share Image
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the storage unit… — Jarod Kintz 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 emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“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, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“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 think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick… — Alexandra Sokoloff Copy Share
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him…In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time. — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget… — Rheta Grimsley Johnson Copy Share
The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
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