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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Gustave Flaubert

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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
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It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.
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You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
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