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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The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. – Marcel Proust

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Time
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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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Mental Illness
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Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. – Giorgio Vasari

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But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy. – Pierre Laval

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Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New Yorks World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. – Marilyn vos Savant

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Intelligence

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11. – Adam Schiff

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One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football. – Marty Ragaway

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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – Horace Walpole

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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence. – Pat Brown

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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. – Paul Valéry, Tel Quel, 1943

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