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.
("Within a Budding Grove")
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I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.Marcel Proust
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust
It has been said that beauty brings a promise of happiness, but it could be otherwise that the possibility of joy is the beginning of beauty.
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