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“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
― Marcel Proust

“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.”
― Marcel Proust

“A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of your banks and seen the Great Ocean. You now know your own inferiority, so it is now possible to discuss great principles with you.
井蛙不可以語於海者，拘於虛也；夏蟲不可以語於冰者，篤於時也；曲士不可以語於道者，束於教也。今爾出於崖涘，觀於大海，乃知爾醜，爾將可與語大理矣。”
― Zhuangzi, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”
― James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“Children inherit their parents' madness.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude