Marcel Proust the Buddhist, from the "Mademoiselle de Forcheville" chapter:
We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourselves.
The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than another thought.
There is no idea that does not carry in itself its possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
(p. 814, vol. V, Modern Library edition)
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