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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

— Marcel Proust

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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913)

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913)

It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions.

In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913)

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures become, by habit, permanent.

In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913)

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913)

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