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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

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Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. ↗

— Andre Breton

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