Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – Marcel Proust
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. – Marcel Proust
Every reader finds himself. The writers 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