"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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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.“
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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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"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
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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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