Marcel Proust Quotes
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
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We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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Nothing is the force that renovates the World.
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It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.
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Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
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Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.
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... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.
