• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?

  Marcel Proust
  French writer and critic 1871-1922
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. malingering
2. counterfeit
3. perfectly
4. deceiving
5. deceive
6. patient

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? by : Marcel Proust

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