Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.


Marcel Duchamp

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MARCEL PROUST
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
MARCEL MARCEAU
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
MARCEL PROUST
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes ...
MARCEL PROUST
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
MARCEL PROUST
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
MARCEL PROUST
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in w...
MARCEL PROUST
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
MARCEL PROUST
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
MARCEL PROUST
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take ...
MARCEL PROUST
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
MARCEL PROUST
Love is a reciprocal torture.
MARCEL PROUST
The only paradise is paradise lost.
MARCEL PROUST
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
MARCEL PROUST
I try not to censor myself at all.
MARCEL DZAMA
But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of thing...
MARCEL PROUST
People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.
MARCEL PROUST
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
MARCEL PAGNOL
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls b...
MARCEL PROUST
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's de...
MARCEL MARCEAU
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
MARCEL PROUST
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched...
MARCEL ACHARD
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a w...
MARCEL PROUST
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions
MARCEL PROUST
Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.
MARCEL PROUST
It's incredible how many emotions you feel when crossing the finish line and seeing that you are...
MARCEL HIRSCHER
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us ...
MARCEL PROUST
I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base, because it seemed lik...
MARCEL DZAMA
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names...
MARCEL PROUST
And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.
MARCEL PROUST
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be b...
MARCEL PROUST
One of a hostess's duties is to act as procuress.
MARCEL PROUST
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
MARCEL PROUST
The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
MARCEL PROUST
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...
MARCEL PROUST
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
MARCEL MARCEAU