"Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times…" — Marcel Proust
"Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning."
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Marcel Proust
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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
— Jane Austen
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
— Honore de Balzac
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
— John Barrymore
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
— Joseph Addison
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
— George Ade
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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