"We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
-Marcel Proust
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"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.“
-Marcel Proust
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