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

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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

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