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 time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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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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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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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 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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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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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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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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