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 PROUSTWhen from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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