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 PROUSTLet us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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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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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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