Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.


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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
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for ...
MARCEL PROUST
The only paradise is paradise lost
MARCEL PROUST
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much...
MARCEL PROUST
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, t...
MARCEL PAGNOL
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have un...
MARCEL PROUST
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others ...
MARCEL PROUST
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
MARCEL PROUST
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of refere...
MARCEL PROUST
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
MARCEL PROUST
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe.
MARCEL PROUST
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls b...
MARCEL PROUST
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
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.
MARCEL MARCEAU