Phillip Brown

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust

“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, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias 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