Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Quote by Marcel Proust
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
- Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
- Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
- Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
- We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
- Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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