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 PROUSTIt has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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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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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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