Quote by Marcel Proust
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from t

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. – Marcel Proust

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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. – Marcel Proust

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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness. – Marcel Proust

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To the man-in-the-street, who, Im sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man whos untrue to his wife. – W. H. Auden

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Im every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. – Michael Caine

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Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient. – Charles Williams

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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. – Theodore White

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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. – Henry A. Wallace

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. – Ramakrishna

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Why kill time when one can employ it. – Proverb

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