"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps……" — Marcel Proust
"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit."
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303 Quotes by Marcel Proust
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon…
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other…
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional,…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as…
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
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The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just…
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I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't…
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in…
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If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored…
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I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born…
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