Marcel Proust Quotes
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
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It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.
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Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)
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Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back.
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As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.
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Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.
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To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
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Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
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That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.
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We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.
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Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
