"It has been said that beauty is a……" — Marcel Proust

"It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty."

— 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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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