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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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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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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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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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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