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.
Author
Marcel Proust
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About Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Marcel ProustA powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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 i…
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.