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 PROUSTTruth is a point of view about things.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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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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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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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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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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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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