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And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his boo...more

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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.

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I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassi...more

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To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our...more

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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 annihil...more