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

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

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Happiness Grief Personal growth

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Time Regained In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.

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The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La deshumanización del Arte e Ideas sobre la novela [The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel]. Revista de Occidente, 1925.

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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Pericles

Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides

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Thucydides
Source
Funeral Oration History of the Peloponnesian War
Genre
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Time
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Era
Classical antiquity
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Pericles. Quoted in The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

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Pericles. Quoted in The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Albert Camus

The Rebel

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Albert Camus
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The Rebel
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Philosophical literature Political literature
Language
French
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
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Camus, Albert. L'Homme Revolte [The Rebel]. Gallimard, 1951.