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Few Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
- In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which…
- Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the…
- No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a…
- We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
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