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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the f...more

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The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human re...more

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Failure too is a form of death.

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I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as ...more

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We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

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One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?

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The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. I human rela...more

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He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea ...more

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Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

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How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. I...more

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Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage o...more

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Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I c...more

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Then his friend said, 'If you fly you will save a day.' He nodded, he agreed, he would sacrifice his ticket, he would save a day. I ask you what does ...more