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Quote by Marcel Proust
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness

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

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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Mental Illness
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Marcel Proust
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. – Marcel Proust

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Intelligence
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Marcel Proust
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – Marcel Proust

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Health
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Marcel Proust
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting. – Chris Evans

Category:
Happiness

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. – J.D. Salinger

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Happiness

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Happiness

Theres a higher form of happiness in commitment. Im counting on it. – Claire Forlani

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Happiness

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I love watching peoples dreams come true. – Jessica Simpson

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Danger — if you meet it promptly and without flinching — you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! – Sir Winston Churchill

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Productive power is the foundation of a countrys economic strength. – Stafford Cripps

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About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so Im no longer somebodys daughter. – Jane Pauley

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