Marcel Proust Quotes
The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
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Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
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You're not a slave to those test audiences.
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My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.
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Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin, we could plan a murder...or start a religion.
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You have to learn how to take care of yourself.
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I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.
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I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.
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I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
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I worked all day, every day. I thought about Tinder in the shower and dreamed about it at night. It wasn't just my job - it was my life.
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The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.
