The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
MARCEL PROUSTThe 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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