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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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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny ...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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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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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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To create is to live twice.

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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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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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

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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.