Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. - Marcel Proust
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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
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Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic.
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The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.
Each artist seems thus to be the native of an unknown country, which he himself has forgotten, different from that from which will emerge, making for the earth, another great artist.
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