Marcel Proust Quotes
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
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I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.
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I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.
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He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
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We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.
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All of the Mets road wins against the Dodgers this year occurred at Dodger Stadium.
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Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.
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These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."
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If you live with love... You will love living.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was happening outside? When I saw an external object, my awareness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, lining it with a thin spiritual border that prevented me from ever directly touching its substance; it would volatize in some way before I could make contact with it, just as an incandescent body brought near a wet object never touches its moisture because it is always preceded by a zone of evaporation.
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Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.
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You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
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The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
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The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
