Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – 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
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