"If only for the sake of elegance, I……" — Marcel Proust

"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."

— 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…
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 Elegance Quotes

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What is elegance? Soap and water! — Cecil Beaton
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001… — Julie Burchill
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken… — Coco Chanel
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. — Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel
Elegance is elimination. — Cristobal Balenciaga
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. — Giorgio Armani
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a… — Oleg Cassini
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. — Edsger Dijkstra

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