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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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On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or...more

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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 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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If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.

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

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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

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What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

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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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To create is to live twice.

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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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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

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This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for a new culture. Man’s unbroken testimony as to his...more