We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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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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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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