Marcel Proust Reading Quotations
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- All Reading Quotes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- C S Lewis
- Neil Gaiman
- Virginia Woolf
- Alberto Manguel
- John Green
- Samuel Johnson
- Daniel Handler
- Stephen King
- Ray Bradbury
- Thomas Jefferson
- Margaret Atwood
- Mason Cooley
- Anna Quindlen
- Dave Barry
- Haruki Murakami
- Jeanette Winterson
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Nick Hornby
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Heart Quotes
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.
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Suicide Quotes
That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.
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Moving Quotes
Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.
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Memories Quotes
After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.