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Marcel Proust Quotes

Marcel Proust quotes about happy

French Author, Writer July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922

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Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the suddenness of certain happy solutions, such as had been brought to me by Gilberte's letter. Happy, or at least seemingly happy, for there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction we can give it does no more, as a rule, than dislodge some pain. And yet sometimes a respite is granted us, and... Marcel Proust
We are, when we love, in an abnormal state, capable of giving at once to the most apparently simple accident, an accident which may at any moment occur, a seriousness which in itself it would not entail. What makes us so happy is the presence in our hearts of an unstable element which we contrive perpetually to maintain and of which we cease almost to be aware so long as it is not displaced. In reality, there is in love a permanent strain of suffering which happiness neutralises, make... Marcel Proust
Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to understand how he could have yielded to an impulse of happiness at such a time, he confined himself, in a habitual gesture of his whenever a difficult question came to his mind, to passing his hand over his forehead, wiping his eyes and the lenses of his lorgnon. Yet he could not be consoled for the death of his wife, but, during the two years he survived her, would say to my... Marcel Proust
Happiness contracted by the cold, forced to withdraw into itself, to close into its heart, it is there that I find the greatest intensity. It is true that I have only ever experienced it through sadness. But it is always the same. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops..."
Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind. Marcel Proust
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the..."
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that..."
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it. Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust quote: "Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make..."
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust

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