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Hell is—other people!

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We do not judge the people we love.

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Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you b...more

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Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see ...more

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I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,and I have followed the source of rivers towards theirsource or plunged into forests, always mak...more

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It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some...more

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Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous ...more

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He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

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I haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter of words; I am b...more

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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old...more