Marcel Proust Quotes
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
Quotes to Explore
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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I do a lot of ceramics.
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
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I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
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The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall.
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The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.
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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
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Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
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the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.
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I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.
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The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.
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The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.
