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I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their so...more

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Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitter...more

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And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.

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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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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

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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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When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

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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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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in...more

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Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of lite...more