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

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

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

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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

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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 leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and r...more

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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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