"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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"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.“
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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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"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
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"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
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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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"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."
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