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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Marcel Proust
Fitness, Cancer, Knowledge
Marcel Proust (1941). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way”

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Marcel Proust
Knowledge, Desire, Tiny
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

Marcel Proust
Creativity, Knowledge, Land

I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!

Marcel Proust
Book, Knowledge, Insignificant Things

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