Truth is a point of view about things.
MARCEL PROUSTFor each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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.
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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.
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Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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