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I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be more inclined to try to humiliate or disarm our s...more

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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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Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.

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

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

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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 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

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Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad abo...more

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What he had loved in Marthe were those evenings when they would walk into the movie theater and men's eyes turned toward her, that moment when he offe...more