Marcel Proust Quotes
However, the danger in socially unbalanced relationships is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
Ralph G. Neas -
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
Cameron Russell -
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
Vanessa Paradis -
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner -
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
L. Neil Smith -
I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
Taylor Momsen
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
Laura Schlessinger -
Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
Pat Conroy -
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
Vikram Seth -
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
Aaliyah -
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
Mahmoud Darwish -
All artists are equal when they are themselves.
Federico Fellini
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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Wade Davis -
Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
Lake Bell -
Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.
Christina Aguilera -
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
Paavo Nurmi -
I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present themselves, they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.
Esther Renay Dean
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Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.
Barack Obama -
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
Oscar Wilde -
Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.
Brennan Manning -
However, the danger in socially unbalanced relationships is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.
Marcel Proust