Marcel Proust Quotes
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover.
Marcel Proust
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Back then it was a very realistic thing for me. My own thing was, you know, wake up at 5 in the afternoon, it's dark out, hang out, maybe take a shower, then start drinking, start smoking pot, go out with friends, get wasted.
Jack Osbourne
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
Orson Scott Card
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
Randall Jarrell
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There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
Edmund Burke
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin
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In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
Leon Trotsky
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If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
William Adams
The Black Eyed Peas
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NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.
Brian Reitzell
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I never smile unless I mean it.
Donny Osmond
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I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover.
Marcel Proust