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When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.

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he doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and...more

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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only...more

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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region ...more

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

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Every time a man (myself) gives way to vanity, every time he thinks and lives in order to show off, this is a betrayal. Every time, it has always been...more

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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming l...more

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On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled by footsteps or ...more