Marcel Proust
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.