Marcel Proust

France
10 Jul 1871 // 18 Nov 1922
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays