We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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