Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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