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Marcel Proust

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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Atheist Creation Perfection
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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Affection Dying Fade Growth Literature People
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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Break Distance Food Past Taste
In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Happiness Love
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Memories Necessary Past Remember
Truth is a point of view about things.
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Truth View
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Appreciation Grateful People Thankful
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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Beginning Creation Deep Philosophy Spiritual Time 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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Communication Miracle Reading Solitude

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