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

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

Le bonheur est salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui développe les forces de l'esprit.

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