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.
MARCEL PROUSTLove is space and time measured by the heart.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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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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