Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
From Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
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.
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
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