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"Swann could at once detect in this story one of those fragments of literal truth which liars, when taken by surprise, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood which they have to invent, thinking that it can be safely incorporated, and will lend the whole story an air of verisimilitude."
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"A miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness."
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"The gospel of miracle that we preach promotes death and encourages corruption."
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"The fake people, are these which always lie."
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"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."
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"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."
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"When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated."
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"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."
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"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."
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"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery."
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"No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend."
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"... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed."
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"Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people as much as the artist. But they do not see it because they are not trying to shed light on it."
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"Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all."
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"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life."
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"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself."
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"In the case of Albertine, I felt that I should never discover anything, that, out of that tangled mass of details of fact and falsehood, I should never unravel the truth: and that it would always be so, unless I were to shut her up in prison (but prisoners escape) until the end."
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"Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life, it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit."
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"After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith,..."
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"... the serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened mouth that the muscles of her face are strained and contorted,..."
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"It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others."
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