Quote by Marcel Proust
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. – Marcel Proust

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. – Marcel Proust

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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. – Marcel Proust

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Intelligence
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All the intelligence and talent in the world cant make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It cant be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. – Willa Cather

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Intelligence

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex – but that did not characterize my service. – Markus Wolf

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Intelligence

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older. – Keith Henson

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Intelligence

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means. – Condoleezza Rice

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Intelligence

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A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out. – Alberic, Monk of Monte-Cassino

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I am convinced that a light supper, a good nights sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward. – Lord Chesterfield

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I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, Marc Jacobs! in a French accent. – Marc Jacobs

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My idea of a good picture is one thats in focus and of a famous person. – Andy Warhol

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