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I do not love men: I love what devours them.

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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love

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