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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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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

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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

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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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Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. – Author Unknown

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In a mad world, only the mad are sane. – Akiro Kurosawa

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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys ones equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. – Georges Bataille

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God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. – Katherine Mansfield

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In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down. – Rick Perry

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