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 PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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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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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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