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"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice."
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"It takes lot of practice to get it right."

"There are two types of spiritual practices. One spiritual practice is done to attain the final goal (experience of pure Soul) and the other type of spiritual practice is done for the sake of doing the spiritual practice. The practice that is performed with the intent of attaining the final goal is the last, final type of spiritual practice."

"Life is a practice. When you 'fail,' you can immediately begin practicing again."

"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."

"Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently."

"Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice."

"Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice."
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"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."

"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."

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

"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."

"Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world."

"After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith,..."

"Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself."

"A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan."
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