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Marcel Proust

Quote of Marcel Proust - Happiness serves hardly any other purpose...


Biography - Marcel Proust:

French novelist, critic and essayist.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1922
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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



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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.





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.





Love is space and time measured by the heart.





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.





Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.












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