The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.
Weitere Zitate von Marcel Proust
Zum Autor"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all."
"A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift."
"The flowers which played then among the grass, the water which rippled past in the sunshine, the whole landscape which served as environment to their apparition lingers around the memory of them still with its unconscious or unheeding air;..."
"But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream."
"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."