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 PROUSTRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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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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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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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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