“medical prescriptions, everything that she needed for the performance, in bed, of her duties to soul and body, to keep the proper… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
La me decine a fait quelques petits progre' s dans ses connaissances depuis Molie' re, mais aucun dans son vocabulaire. Medicine has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Inasmuch as a great part of what doctors know is taught them by the sick, they are easily led to believe that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“make use of some such alarm signals as mad-doctors adopt in dealing with their distracted patients; as by beating several times on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
