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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

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I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say

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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his...more

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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Live to the point of tears.

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Between the desolate earth and the colorless sky appeared an Image of the ungrateful world in which, for the first time, he came to himself at last. O...more

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She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too m...more

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The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from oursel...more

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Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad abo...more