"The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of……" — Marcel Proust
"The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace."
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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 Benighted Quotes
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Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s.…
— James Buchan
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous…
— William S. Burroughs
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It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's…
— Allan Bloom
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Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in…
— Charles Lamb
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Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.
— David Livingstone
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the…
— John Milton
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function…
— Norman Mailer
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Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact,…
— Henry Louis Gates
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he…
— John Milton
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In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is…
— Will Self
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