#make

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#age #all things #comes #death #easier

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#be grateful #blossom #charming #gardeners #grateful

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#during #lasting #make #mind #passing

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#happiness #hardly #make #other #possible

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#being #bitter #could #feel #i

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#damned #day #even #i #i always

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#gonna #hour #i #laugh #like