Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. –

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. –

-- Marcel Proust

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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

-- Marcel Proust

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

-- Marcel Proust

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-- Marcel Proust

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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

-- Marcel Proust

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

-- Marcel Proust

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