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 PROUSTWe think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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