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

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Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. – Author Unknown

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Hope is grief’s best music. – Author Unknown

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