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By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then th...more

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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

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Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

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An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they're from, their names, what they'...more

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Leon was weary of loving without any result; moreover he was beginning to feel that depression caused by the repetition of the same kind of life, when...more

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned to you? All the memori...more

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I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

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I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but...more

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How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?

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He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he encountered this grace of language, this quiet taste ...more

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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

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At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude o...more