"Desire makes everything blossom" — Marcel Proust

"Desire makes everything blossom"

— Marcel Proust

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303 Quotes by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust has 303 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we…
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon…
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is…
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards…
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other…
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not…
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction…
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a…
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional,…
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as…

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More Anticipation Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she… — Francis Beaumont
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and… — Dirk Benedict
He who matures early lives in anticipation. — Theodor Adorno
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never… — Josh Billings
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. — Hal Borland
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. — George Burns
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie

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