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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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
Cameron Russell -
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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!
Barack Obama -
She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.
Lisa See -
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.
Jean Chretien
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
Orison Swett Marden -
You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football – for me, at least.
Xavi -
Every developer will want to live in this world…and it’s our job to build it.
Urs Holzle -
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