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My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here.

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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

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

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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

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You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about o...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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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

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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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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

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People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

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And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved f...more