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Love is a drama of contradictions.

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I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

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My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could o...more

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love wit...more

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Shoulder to shoulder, a coordinated movement of the people, their blood no longer confined in the limited circulation of the body but rolling sweetly ...more

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.

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It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure...more

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I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every ...more

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Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

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I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocenc...more