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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust We love only what we do not wholly possess.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
HafezHafez The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah A bride should look at everything she possibly can…just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.
Vera WangVera Wang Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
ZoroasterZoroaster Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.
HafezHafez It’s hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.
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