in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them
– Marcel Proust
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- But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? – Markus Zusak
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- I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. – Jennifer Donnelly
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- When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country – Martin Luther King Jr
- Choice of justice is better than injustice if even you got hold of the injustice it from any since that since is nonsense. – MRishad Sakhi
- When God became lonelyhe created man,or was itwhen man became lonelyhe created God. – Melanie Exler
- I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint. – DA Paul
- She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. – Amit Kalantri
- The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. – Marcel Proust
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- After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated. – Marcel Proust
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- Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood. – Marcel Proust
- Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow. – Marcel Proust
- Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. – Marcel Proust
- For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart. – Marcel Proust
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
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- It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one. – Marcel Proust
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- …for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. – Marcel Proust
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- His [Morel’s] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. – Marcel Proust