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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

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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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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

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