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But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read the latest masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it all those of our own reflexions which we have despised, joy...

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw ...

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It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.

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The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

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People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

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So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

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As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.

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I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

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We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

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But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

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Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

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As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

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So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.

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Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void from which at odd moments a chance resemblance enables ones to resuscitate dead recollections, but even then, there are innu...

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She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

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Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's...

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Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal fr...

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