The progress of civilization enables each one of us to manifest unsuspected virtues or new vices, which make us either dearer or more unbearable to our friends.
 Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah (1921). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source Sodom and Gomorrah
Topic progress civilization
Date 1921
Language English
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Note Translated by John Sturrock
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