You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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