Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make… — Marcel Proust
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
In the original French
La maladie est le plus ecoute des medicins: a la bonte, au savoir on ne fait que promettre; on obeit a la souffrance.
In Search of Lost Time · 1922
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Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.
Original citation
Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah. Paris: Grasset/Gallimard, 1921-1922.
