Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
-Marcel Proust
alone
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
-Marcel Proust
alone
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
-Marcel Proust
art
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
-Marcel Proust
change
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
-Marcel Proust
change
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
-Marcel Proust
communication
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.
-Marcel Proust
freedom
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
friendship
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
-Marcel Proust
great
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
-Marcel Proust
happiness
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
-Marcel Proust
happiness
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
-Marcel Proust
imagination
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
-Marcel Proust
intelligence
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
-Marcel Proust
intelligence
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
-Marcel Proust
knowledge
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
-Marcel Proust
knowledge
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
-Marcel Proust
medical
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
-Marcel Proust
medical
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.
-Marcel Proust
men
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
-Marcel Proust
men
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
-Marcel Proust
nature
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.
-Marcel Proust
science
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
-Marcel Proust
strength
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
-Marcel Proust
sympathy
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
-Marcel Proust
time
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.
-Marcel Proust
time
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
-Marcel Proust
time
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
-Marcel Proust
time
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
-Marcel Proust
truth
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
-Marcel Proust
wisdom
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
-Marcel Proust
women
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
-Marcel Proust
work
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