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 PROUSTThe bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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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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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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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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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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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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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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