A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
MARCEL PROUSTThe 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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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.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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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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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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