We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
MARCEL PROUSTWe live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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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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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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