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Marcel Proust Quotes: We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
         

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.


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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
         



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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.

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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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.



One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.



If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.



Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.





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