Quote by Marcel Proust
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize tha

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

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The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. – Marcel Proust

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We dont receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust

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A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier’s office. – Francis O’Walsh

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Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts — it’s what you do with what you have left. – Hubert Humphrey

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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! – Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia

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[P]oetry… the spontaneous fusion of hitherto unrelated words. Such things must take place in your own head, by your own chemistry. – Marie Emilie Gilchrist (1893–1989), Writing Poetry: Suggestions for Young

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