Random Quote
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom whole worlds apart who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Quotes By Marcel Proust
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical...
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey...
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We must never be afraid to go too far for truth lies beyond.
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Time which changes people does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it...
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If a little dreaming is dangerous the cure for it is not to dream less but...
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first of which...
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness to knowledge we...
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their...
Quotes About Loneliness
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
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Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
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I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.