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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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