Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone… — Marcel Proust
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realise how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
In the original French
Tout ce que nous connaissons de grand nous vient des nerveux. Ce sont eux et non pas d'autres qui ont fonde les religions et compose les chefs-doeuvre. Jamais le monde ne saura tout ce qu'il leur doit et surtout ce qu'eux ont souffert pour le lui donner.
In Search of Lost Time · 1921
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Current citation
Proust, Marcel. The Guermantes Way, edited and translated by Mark Treharne. Penguin Classics, 2005.
Original citation
Proust, Marcel. Le Côté de Guermantes [The Guermantes Way]. Paris: Gallimard, 1920-1921.