Proust on happiness
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
Marcel Proust
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Marcel Proust
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.
Marcel Proust
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
Marcel Proust
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Marcel Proust
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Marcel Proust
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust
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.
Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust
