"Habit is a second nature which prevents us……" — Marcel Proust
"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."
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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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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium…
— John William Draper
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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do.…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and…
— J M Coetzee
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position…
— Richard Hofstadter
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To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a…
— Jon Evans
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The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the…
— Iwan Bloch
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When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the…
— Jehan Sadat
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
— Joseph O'Connor
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