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Him Quotes by Marcel Proust
- There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of…
- A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
- The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men…
- In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart…
- None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book…
- At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop…
- The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a…
- She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden