We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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