Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. – Marcel Proust
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals… is the plagiarism of ourselves. – Marcel Proust
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
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust