Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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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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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Desire makes everything blossom.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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 only paradise is paradise lost.
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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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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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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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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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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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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