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Cannot Quotes by Marcel Proust
- The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an…
- We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot…
- 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…
- Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
- I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself…
- One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to…
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
- We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and…
- The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…
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