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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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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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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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I know positively… that each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth, is free from it. And I know, too, that we must keep endless wat...more

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I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectab...more

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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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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the ...more

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

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We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poi...more

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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. ...more