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 PROUSTWe do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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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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There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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