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Marcel Proust Quotes

French - Author | July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

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

Happiness Grief Mind Sympathy Body

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Memory Chance Find Dangerous Hand

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Soul Trees Forest Dark Your Species

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.

Freedom Science Men Free Think Long

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Happiness Purpose Possible Make Than

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.

Work Book Kind Possible Never Seen

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Kindness Knowledge Pain Medical Pay

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Elegance Try Pure Only Morally Sake

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Strength Communication Challenges Him

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

Wisdom Journey Take Us Must After

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Time People Changes Image Alter

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.

Time Day Habit Inspire Feel Us

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