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Marcel Proust

Quote of Marcel Proust - As long as men are free...


Biography - Marcel Proust:

French novelist, critic and essayist.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1922
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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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Quotes for: to think


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Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





I think, therefore I am.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.











Quotes for: freedom


Quotes

Quotes about freedom:


There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.





One is not born, but rather becomes, free.





This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.











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Marcel Proust also said...


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





The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.





Love is space and time measured by the heart.





We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.





Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.





Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.












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