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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

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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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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

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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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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

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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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