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Quote by Marcel Proust
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illne

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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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – 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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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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If you get hung up on everybody elses hang-ups, then the whole worlds going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. – Richard Brautigan

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – R. D. Laing

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