Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.Fran Lebowitz
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.Fran Lebowitz
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
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.Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.Marcel Proust
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.Marcel Proust
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.Marcel Proust
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.Marcel Proust
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust
