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My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.


Marcel Duchamp

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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