The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist…

Marcel Proust
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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. ✨ Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 2 (1921) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)
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