It is in sickness that we are compelled to recognise that we do not live alone but are chained to a being from a different realm, from whom we are worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. - Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time Quotes)

It is in sickness that we are compelled to recognise that we do not live alone but are chained to a being from a different realm, from whom we are worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.[C’est dans la maladie que nous nous rendons compte que nous ne vivons pas seuls, mais enchaînés à un être d’un règne différent, dont des abîmes nous séparent, qui ne nous connaît pas et duquel il est impossible de nous faire comprendre: notre corps.]

Source:Part I, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way (1920/1921)
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