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 PROUSTThanks 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.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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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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