Marcel Proust Quotes
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
Olav Thon
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-Pain
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
Jack Whitehall
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
Hannah Storm
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
Rachel Ticotin
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
Barbara Demick
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
Kimbal Musk
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I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.
Gabby Douglas
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It's hard to imagine you've got these massive wings in your back. You have to think about how it's going to affect your posture, affect the way you move, just, like, the sheer weight of them.
Ben Hardy
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I'm from Louisville, Kentucky, and nobody gets out of there. So I'm like, how am I gonna get out of there? Nobody else can. So it took some time. The struggle made me realize I didn't really want to be 'normal' anymore.
Bryson Tiller
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel Proust
