Marcel Proust. Time regained (№ 146753)

Any person that causes us to suffer can be classified us to the deity, he fragmented the reflection and the last link; the deity (Idea), the contemplation of which fills us with joy instead of sorrow we felt once. The art of living is to perceive people that causes us to suffer, only as steps, allowing to reach their divine image, and joyously to people our life with divinities.