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 PROUSTSometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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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 fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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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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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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