Marcel Proust Quotes

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

Marcel Proust

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• I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Alone

• If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

• The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Waiting

• I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Why
  • Free
  • Feels

• I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Novel

• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Hollywood
  • Type
  • Producer

• Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Special
  • Cities
  • Attachment

• 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
  • Roman Catholics
  • Papal
  • Edicts

• I have had a lot of success with failure

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Failure

• Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Useful
  • Participation
  • Public Function

• 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
  • People
  • Today
  • Desire

• 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
  • My Life
  • Result
  • Atheism

• No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Matter
  • Sides
  • Slice

• Exercise is my relaxation. It's when I have some time to myself. I exercise every day.

  

  Rebecca Breeds
  • Time
  • Exercise
  • Relaxation

• 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
  • Reason
  • Intellect
  • Unbearable

• Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• 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
  • People
  • Country
  • Difficult

• Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Suffer
  • Intellect
  • Ills