For 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.
MARCEL PROUSTThe time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The only true voyage of discovery, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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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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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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