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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 el...more

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I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abyss of uncertainty whenever the mind feels that some...more

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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

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Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought.

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In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should neve...more

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... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

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When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future ...more

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In Swann's mind, however, these words, meeting no opposition, settled and hardened until they assumed the indestructibility of a truth so indubitable ...more

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Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducin...more

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We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourse...more