Marcel Proust Quotes
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey -
I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
Dacre Montgomery -
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
Val Kilmer -
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
Walter Annenberg -
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett -
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
Dan Quayle
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Saint Augustine -
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang -
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
Karl von Frisch -
If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
H. Jon Benjamin -
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
Baruch Spinoza -
I love to be in front of big galleries.
Natalie Gulbis
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill -
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan -
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge -
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
Lana Del Rey -
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
Adam D'Angelo -
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht -
It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.
Isabelle Kocher -
Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
P. J. O'Rourke -
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
Marcel Proust