"We see things but we don't see them,……" — Marcel Proust
"We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another."
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Marcel Proust
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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 Flowing Quotes
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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through…
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the…
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I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much…
— Kelly Clarkson
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams…
— Laozi
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You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's…
— Greg Rusedski
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Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to…
— Rajneesh
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by…
— William Gurnall
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Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is…
— Arthur W. Pink
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My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate…
— Candace Pert
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands,…
— Sun Tzu
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Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in…
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