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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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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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He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for...more

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Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

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How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

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But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a w...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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The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come ...more