Marcel Proust Quotes

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

Marcel Proust

• Judging
• Human being
• Adopts

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• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

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• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

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• Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

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• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

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• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

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• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

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• I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

  

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• Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

  

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• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  

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• I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.

  

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• Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

  

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• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

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• The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

  

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• If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  

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• Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit - it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

  

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• People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.'

  

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• As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

  

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• The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then the idea of creating a morality we like better is incoherent. Moreover, it would seem that until we had created our new morality, we would have no standard by which to criticize God. Since we have not yet created one, the standard by which we judge Him must be the very standard that He gave us. If it is good enough to judge Him by, then why do we need a new one?

  

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• The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Judging
  • Human being
  • Adopts