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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

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We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong.

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. ...

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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are i...

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Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to expressWith a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,The bleeding of my heart.

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Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!What a refuge it is to be completely unreli...

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Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - ...

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To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in...

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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

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To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. ...

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I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. A...