Love is a reciprocal torture.

Quote by Marcel Proust

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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no...

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no...

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually....

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually....

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire...

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire...

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth...

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays,...

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in...

His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in...

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure...

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and...

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and...

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the...

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the...

To write simply is as difficult as to be good

To write simply is as difficult as to be good