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

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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. – Marcel Proust

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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love. – Candace Bushnell

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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. – William H. Seward

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Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. – Helen Keller

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