Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.[Qu’elles soient remplies en général par la personne à qui nous les adressons d’un sens qu’elle tire de sa propre substance et qui est très différent de celui que nous avions mis dans ces mêmes paroles.]

Source:Part Two, Vol. II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919)
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