"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. The lives that you admire and the attitudes that seem noble to you have not been shaped by a pater familias or a schoolmaster; they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory."
-- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
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