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Quotes About Association

Possibly they knew better than I did that the Duchesse de Guise was Princess of Cleves, of Orléans, of Porcien, and so forth, but long before they knew all these names, they had known the Duchesse de Guise's face, which was subsequently what this name reflected back to them. I had begun with the fairy, even if she was soon fated to perish; they had begun with the woman herself.
~ Marcel Proust
as the saying is, climbing in opposition to my
~ Marcel Proust
Probably what is wanting, the first time, is not comprehension but memory.
~ Marcel Proust
And once again I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy), immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.
~ Marcel Proust
Even if we live in a hermetically sealed compartment, associations of ideas, memories continue to act upon us.
~ Marcel Proust
Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager
~ Marcel Proust
It appeared that the deference which, on my grandmother's authority, we owed to Mme. de Villeparisis imposed on her the reciprocal obligation to do nothing that would render her less worthy of our regard, and that she had failed in her duty in becoming aware of Swann's existence and in allowing members of her family to associate with him. "How should she know Swann? A lady who, you always made out, was related to Marshal Mac-Mahon!
~ Marcel Proust
As for our sentiments, we have spoken of them too often to repeat again now that as often as not love is nothing more than the association of the face of a girl (whom otherwise we should soon have found intolerable) with the heartbeats inseparable from an endless, vain expectation, and from some trick that she has played upon us. All this is true not merely of imaginative young men brought into contact with changeable girls.
~ Marcel Proust
As for our feelings, we need hardly repeat that love is often only the association between the image of a girl (of whom otherwise we would very quickly have tired) and the increased heart rate inseparable from a long, futile wait when the young lady in question has "stood us up.
~ Marcel Proust
who, during the months since the criminal verdict, have rewritten history.
~ Marcia Clark
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There are no descriptions, it is almost needless to say, of Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, or for that matter, Jefferson Davis playing with kittens.
~ Unknown
disarmament was an idea just of Jews, Socialists, and hysterical women
~ Margaret MacMillan
I am like a bee attracted by the scent of flowers—no perfume smells sweeter than that of a rose in an English garden. Wear it always,' he urged, pausing mere inches from where she stood, 'never change it, for to me it has become your hallmark, the scent I associate only with you." -Terzan Helios
~ Unknown
Woman, thy name is perversity!
~ Margaret Way
It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.
~ Marge Piercy
mysterious errand. It was Dylan's day off and he
~ Marianne Faithfull
you're involved with, if you get half a chance. I treated
~ Marianne Faithfull
Beth was surprised that Tesla had heard of Mr. Whittaker.
~ Unknown
We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
~ Marilu Henner
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
~ Lance Armstrong
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.
~ Unknown
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
~ Compton Mackenzie
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
~ William Hazlitt