Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
MARCEL PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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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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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
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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.
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