Marcel Proust Quotes

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

• Desire
• Possession
• Blossom

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• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • You
  • Way
  • Same

• The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Political
  • Challenge
  • Find

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Father

• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Washington
  • Endless
  • Clearly

• For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Watch

• The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed.

  

  Lawyer
  • Society
  • Law
  • Lawyer

• Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat.

  

  Lucretius

• Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World

• The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • History
  • Pain
  • Soldier

• I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Trust is built with consistency.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • Trust
  • Consistency

• President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.

  

  Lincoln Chafee

• Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Church
  • Prayer

• I'm not in "Bend and Snap." But, I will say that when I first heard they were making Legally Blonde into a musical, I thought, Well, of course, there's going to be a bend and snap number, because it's just, I think, one of the most natural moments in the movie to expand into a musical number.

  

  Katherine Shindle
  • Natural
  • Heard
  • Musical

• Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

  

  Max Frisch
  • World
  • Experience
  • Technology

• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Ideas

• Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Desire
  • Possession
  • Blossom