"A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a……" — Marcel Proust
"A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped."
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303 Quotes by Marcel Proust
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon…
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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…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards…
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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…
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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…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional,…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as…
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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and…
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral…
— Unknown Author
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A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
— Jan Carlzon
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full…
— Violette Leduc
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Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone…
— John Goddard
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you…
— Alan Garner
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor,…
— Arthur Compton
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new…
— Margaret Mead
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