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
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
More Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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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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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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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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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
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