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..

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe thro….

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be….

May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, whe….

How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie ….

A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament,….

My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kin….

An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten you….

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes..

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires..

Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while ….

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, ….

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head….

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without….

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never ….

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they ….

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty w….

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only….

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey..

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, ….

Le veritable voyage de decouverte ne consiste pas a chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais a avoir de nouveaux yeux. (The real voyage of discovery cons….