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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

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

Category:
Sanity
Author
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

Category:
Día de los Muertos
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. – David Brainerd

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. – John Barrymore

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. – Franz Kafka

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