Marcel Proust Quotes
May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.
Quotes to Explore
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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I am just thinking how unfair it is of you to quote their own words. It is a low blow to use what ExxonMobil has actually said against them. I mean, that is kind of a cheap shot, don't you think?
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We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.
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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.
