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"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book."
— Marcel Proust

tags: books, childhood, reading
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"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."
— Marcel Proust

tags: paradise
29 people liked it

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way"
— Marcel Proust

15 people liked it

"Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance."
— Marcel Proust

26 people liked it

"Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them."
— Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain)

15 people liked it

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time."
— Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1-3 Box Set)

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"...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 common herd mistake for weakness."
— Marcel Proust

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"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 through which they
continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It
is as though they were traveling abroad.
"
— Marcel Proust

tags: death, immortality, life, travel
14 people liked it

"...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.."
— Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time)

7 people liked it

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
— Edith Wharton

tags: happiness
81 people liked it

"I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort."
— Harold Brodkey

tags: effort, persistence
2 people liked it

"This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic."
— Lorrie Moore (Like Life)

18 people liked it

"She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing"
— Lorrie Moore

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"When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet. "
— Lorrie Moore

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""I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says.

Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep."
— Lorrie Moore (Self-help)

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""All the world's a stage we're going through.""
— Lorrie Moore (Anagrams)

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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others."
— Groucho Marx

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"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. "
— Groucho Marx

tags: art, humor
271 people liked it

"we'll meet at the theater tonight. i'll hold your seat 'til you get there; once you get there ... you're on your own."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor
50 people liked it

"I can levitate birds. No one cares."
— Woody Allen

52 people liked it

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
457 people liked it

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."
— Mae West

64 people liked it

"Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile."
— Mae West

116 people liked it

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, love
258 people liked it

"Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: age, humor
59 people liked it

"Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: peanuts
116 people liked it

"I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: education, humor
62 people liked it

"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
"
— Joan Rivers

tags: mistake, sex, tramp, woman
81 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing
485 people liked it

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: writing
573 people liked it

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: writing
469 people liked it

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
— John Steinbeck

tags: writing
217 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,428 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,694 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,367 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,680 people liked it

"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dr-, seuss
255 people liked it

"I said what I meant, and I meant what I said. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
— Dr. Seuss (Horton Hears a Who!)

tags: dr-, humor, inspirational, musical, seuss
419 people liked it

"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
— Dr. Seuss

205 people liked it

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
— Dr. Seuss

200 people liked it

"Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you"
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

64 people liked it

"If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!
An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't."
— Dr. Seuss

76 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,701 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
1,994 people liked it

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: girls, love
865 people liked it

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

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"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

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"It's all make believe, isn't it?"
— Marilyn Monroe

184 people liked it

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
— Marilyn Monroe

208 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
3,025 people liked it

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