"One reads the papers as one wants to……" — Marcel Proust
"One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress."
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303 Quotes by Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust has 303 quotes on this site.
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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 Bandage Quotes
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If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to…
— Theodore Dreiser
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We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind -…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I’m never without a bandage.
— Joan Rivers
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If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never…
— Norman Rockwell
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Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.
— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
— Elbert Hubbard
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I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the…
— Wentworth Miller
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Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are…
— Jim Trelease
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Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.
— Arnold Mindell
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I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because, as soon as I was, a bandage came down…
— Jacques Lusseyran
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If you really serious ’bout helpin’ somebody, crawl down in the ditch with ’em, bandage up their wounds, and stick…
— Denver Moore
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