What did Marcel Proust mean by: Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. - Marcel Proust Writer · France Copy
+ People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcel Proust, Unhappy, 0 - Marcel Proust Writer · France
+ How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one’s memory. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcel Proust, Memories, Paradoxical, Reality, 0 - Marcel Proust Writer · France
+ Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcel Proust, Literature, Lying, Time, 0 - Marcel Proust Writer · France
+ It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcel Proust, Mind, Resolution, 0 - Marcel Proust Writer · France
+ For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcel Proust, Sin, Youth, 0 - Marcel Proust Writer · France
+ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Feraz Zeid, August 25, 2023December 29, 2023, Marcel Proust, Discovery, Eyes, New, 0 - Marcel Proust Writer · France
+ Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcel Proust, Memories, Past, Remembrance, 0 - Marcel Proust Writer · France
+ How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it? Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcel Proust, Lying, 0 - Marcel Proust Writer · France
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. Explain - Frederick Lenz Philosopher · USA
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor’s prescription; one must be sick to believe them. - Maurice de Vlaminck Painter · France
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot Economist and journalist · England
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead. - Jean Sibelius Composer · Finland
Most people aren’t cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain. - Jean-Marie Eveillard
