Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time #2)

by Marcel Proust

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

having a higher resolution of vision vs feeling

Love

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.

Your most ardent longing is to humiliate the man who has insulted you.

It is because they entail the sacrifice of a more or less advantageous position to a purely private happiness that, as a general rule, ignominious marriages are the most estimable of all.

Marriage as a sacrifice to be esteemed