"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying……" — Marcel Proust
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
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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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More Incapable Quotes
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging,…
— Walter Benjamin
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
— Mitch Albom
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
— Albert Camus
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it…
— Alexis Carrel
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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live…
— Charles Babbage
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
— Blaise Pascal
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe…
— John Baillie
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