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 PROUSTA change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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