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Marcel Proust

"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit."

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"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit."

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"We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane."

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"In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise."

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"All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding."

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"The proper study of Mankind is Man."

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"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."

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