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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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Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the ...more

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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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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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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us ...more

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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love ...more

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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

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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

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What he had loved in Marthe were those evenings when they would walk into the movie theater and men's eyes turned toward her, that moment when he offe...more

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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

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Living above the world, each discovering his own weight, seeing his face brighten and darken with the day, the night, each of the four inhabitants of ...more