Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
~ Marcel Proust

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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
~ Marcel Proust

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We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.
~ Marcel Proust

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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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