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A clear view of certain inferiorities in no way diminishes affection; on the contrary, love makes us consider them charming.
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We know that our dreams are not realizable; but it is useful to have dreams in order to see them come to naught and to learn by their failure.
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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 own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.
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In our relations with people we originally disliked there always remains, under the artificial pleasure we eventually take in their company, the spoiled taste of the flaws they have succeeded in hiding.
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The mind can be influenced like a plant, like a cell, like a chemical element; one has only to introduce it into a series of new circumstances or a new setting.
Marcel Proust
