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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-- Marcel Proust

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