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 PROUSTIn a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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