Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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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, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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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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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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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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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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Truth is a point of view about things.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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