Marcel Proust

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

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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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