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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.

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

Marcel Proust
Wise, Wisdom, Im Sorry

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Marcel Proust
Wise, Wisdom, Eye

We 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.

Marcel Proust
Wisdom, Learning, Journey

There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.

Marcel Proust
Wise, Wisdom, Memories
Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.481, Yale University Press

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Marcel Proust
Life, Wise, Wisdom
Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.775, Wordsworth Editions

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