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Quote by Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone fou

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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Mental Illness
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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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Marcel Proust
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