Marcel Proust Quotes
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
Bela Lugosi
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Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.
Paul Auster
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Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.
Robert H. Schuller
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I have had a lot of success with failure
Thomas A. Edison
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Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.
John Stuart Mill
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Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia and, I am sure, millions of people living in Japan have an urge to get to know each other, cooperate and exchange useful information, as well as a sincere desire that all problems that still remain unresolved be resolved.
Vladimir Putin
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Baruch Spinoza
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Exercise is my relaxation. It's when I have some time to myself. I exercise every day.
Rebecca Breeds
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
Antonio Porchia
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In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with a lot of the countries with really difficult, impenetrable nationalist movements - countries that once had a big empire, like Turkey, England, or even in Italy, with the fascists in the middle of the last century. People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
Robert Wyatt