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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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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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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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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

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...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

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Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

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If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only...more

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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.