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

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"Love is space and time measured with the heart."

- Marcel Proust

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"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

- Marcel Proust

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"naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May."

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"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

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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."

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