People’s motives lie at a deeper level, which we cannot perceive, and moreover engender other actions, which we fail to recognize and which are often in absolute contradiction with those that we do recognize.
 Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1925). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source The Fugitive
Topic contradiction action
Date 1925
Language English
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Note Translated by Peter Collier
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