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She was a very fine lady, a recluse. We never talked much but just to say hello, that's all.


Marcel Boulet

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MARCEL MARCEAU His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, e...
MARCEL PROUST A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
MARCEL PAGNOL Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can b...
MARCEL FALK There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than...
MARCEL DUCHAMP It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ou...
MARCEL PROUST One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb
MARCEL PAGNOL Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.
MARCEL PAGNOL In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.
MARCEL DUCHAMP The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree th...
MARCEL DUCHAMP What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no rel...
MARCEL PROUST A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm...
MARCEL DUCHAMP People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake t...
MARCEL PROUST The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were ...
MARCEL CARNE Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to suc...
MARCEL DUCHAMP If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
MARCEL CARNE Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's ...
MARCEL MARCEAU In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground...
MARCEL PROUST What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
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