Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Quote by Marcel Proust
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
- 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.
- Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
- We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
- Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
- Love is space and time measured by the heart.
- The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
- If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
- Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
- A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
- As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.