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Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the spirit.
~ Marcel Proust
A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...
~ Marcel Proust
There is an inanimate object which has a capacity to exasperate which no human being will ever attain: a piano.
~ Marcel Proust
One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.
~ Marcel Proust
There is in woman something of the unconscious function of drugs which are cunning without knowing it, like morphine.
~ Marcel Proust
The satisfaction an imbecile derives from having right on his side and being certain of success is especially irritating.
~ Marcel Proust
pretentiousness is closely allied to stupidity and that simplicity has a subtle but agreeable flavour.
~ Marcel Proust
How could all this fresh water of memories have spurted once again and flowed through my impure soul of today without getting soiled?
~ Marcel Proust
Moreover, each man's malevolence quite involuntarily exaggerated the other's importance, as if the chief of villains were confronting the king of imbeciles.
~ Marcel Proust
Her eyes seemed to promise a spirit forever capsized in the diseased waters of regret.
~ Marcel Proust
Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is not lost in loss itself.
~ John Milton
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,.....
~ John Milton
For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
~ John Milton
What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
~ John Milton
Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry; And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God give none
~ John Milton
My voice thou oft hast heard and hast not feared, But oft rejoiced
~ John Milton
Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty who made Thee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'n Such as He pleased and circumscribed their being?
~ John Milton
Hell's dread Emperor
~ John Milton
Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:—
~ John Milton
pain? where there is then no good 31: For which to strive, no strife can grow up there
~ John Milton
If therefore the Father is the God of Christ and the same one is our God, and if there is no God but one, there can be no God beside the Father.
~ John Milton
So spake the Son, and into terrour chang'd   His count'nance too severe to be beheld   And full of wrauth bent on his Enemies.
~ John Milton
To do ought good never will be our task,   But ever to do ill our sole delight,   As being the contrary to his high will   Whom we resist.
~ John Milton
Failure to disclose is a crime in this state. Has she filed a police report?
~ Unknown