"The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by……" — Marcel Proust
"The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves."
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303 Quotes by Marcel Proust
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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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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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