There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
~ Marcel Proust

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust

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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust

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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
~ Marcel Proust

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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
~ Marcel Proust

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust

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