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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.

Marcel Proust

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Book Existence Greatness Humility Writing
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Practice Profession Recognition Vice
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
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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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Change People Time
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Philosophy Photograph
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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Chance Satisfaction Success
People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Happiness People Thinking
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree

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