We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one… — Marcel Proust
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
In the original French
On ne reçoit pas la sagesse, il faut la découvrir soi-même après un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous épargner.
In Search of Lost Time · 1919
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Proust, Marcel. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, translated and edited by James Grieve. Penguin Classics, 2005.
Original citation
Proust, Marcel. À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower]. Paris: Gallimard, 1919.