Marcel Proust Quotes
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
Quotes to Explore
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.
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It's good to be alive.
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I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pleasure of the eye. I've always enjoyed color. I'm a knitter.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.
