Marcel Proust Quotes
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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I don't really consider myself to be famous.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
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In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.
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Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.
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John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.
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Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
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Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
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King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.
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The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.
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Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
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Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.
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How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.
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To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.
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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
