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Quote DB :: Authors :: Marcel Proust :: View Quote View Quote "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Marcel Proust Listed in: Miscellaneous Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4  Rate Quote 2 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Marcel Proust "The only paradise is paradise lost." "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." "It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused." "The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace." "I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter." Top 5 quotes from Miscellaneous "Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness." "There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure." "Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities." "As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever." "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."

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