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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

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Beautiful Imagination Men Women
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
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Intellectual Intelligent People Spring
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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Dream Inspirational Love Time
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
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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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
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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Art Ourselves See World
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
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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Art Deep Thankful World
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Afraid Lying Motivational Success Truth
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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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Beauty Possible Promise
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
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
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.
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Discover Journey Learning View Wisdom World
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Destination See Way
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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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Dignity Existence Photography Reality
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves

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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