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Marcel Proust Quotes: We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
         

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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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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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.



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