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Marcel Proust

"The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying."

Source : Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive”, p.515, Random House

Marcel Proust

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“I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.”
“A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.”
“A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution.”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 513, 2005.
“Youâ€™re walking down lifeâ€™s road, societyâ€™s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you canâ€™t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.”
“Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”

Source : Josiah Royce (1995). “The Philosophy of Loyalty”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press
“One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.”
“I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.”

Source : "Autobiographical interview". Cahiers du Cinema Magazine, 1960.
“I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.”

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