Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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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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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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 is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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