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It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

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How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain

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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of th...more

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Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

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One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory,...more

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The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.