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Quote by Marcel Proust

“How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.”

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist renowned for his magnum opus, 'In Search of Lost Time'. This novel is considered a classic of 20th-century literature, known for its intricate psychological portrayals and profound exploration of memory. more

“... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.”

Men Giving Faces Wise Stupid Expression Fool Photograph Hunger Innocence Thirst Outlaw Wretchedness Hunger And Thirst Ruffian

Author:Mark Twain

“The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.”

Long Witness Bribe Kodak

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.”

Ifs Should Sex Highest Unions Excellence Inferiors Flocks Offspring

Author:Plato

“I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.”

States Lines Built

Author:Plato

“[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.”

Important Modern Extraordinary Triumph Modern Science Daguerreotypes

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.”

War Country Remember

Author:George Orwell

“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.”

Persons Past Lines Existence Couple Evidence Photograph Forgotten Print Comrade Julius Forgery

Author:George Orwell

“Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.”

Men Religion Angel Lazy Lazy Man Angel Of Death

Author:Martin Luther

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