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People Quotes by Marcel Proust
- For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times…
- People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
- The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in…
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
- We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it…
- It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
- Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make…
- Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
- Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
- It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
- People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
- People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
- Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.
- People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but…
- Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for…
- ...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the…
- People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being…
- No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a…
- I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,…
- But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more…
- There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.
- 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…
- People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which…
- 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…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle