"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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"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.“
-Marcel Proust
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"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
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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."
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