Proust

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    Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)