He Asserts 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. — Marcel Proust
- Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by… — Marcel Proust