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

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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst

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