#or

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. ↗

— Sun Ra

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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#dangerous #dream #dreaming #less #little

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#childhood #days #favorite #fully #lived

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ↗

— Quintilian

#fortune #future #present #than #worse

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

#come #doctor #intelligence #intelligent #intelligent people

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#different kinds #forsake #kinds #many #others

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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