If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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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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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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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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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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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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