Marcel Proust Quotes
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Quotes to Explore
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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Настоящее произведение искусства делает то, что в сознании воспринимающего уничтожается разделение между ним и художником...
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Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of thee that thou art not simple or that thou art not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about thee; and this is altogether in thy power.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
