History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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