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Quote DB :: Authors :: Marcel Proust :: View Quote View Quote "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Marcel Proust Listed in: Happiness, Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.85  Rate Quote 13 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Marcel Proust "The only paradise is paradise lost." "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." "It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused." "The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace." "I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter." Top 5 quotes from Happiness, Thinking "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord." "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses." "What once was thought can never be unthought." "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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