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Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

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Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

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I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is banal and that bears no resemblance to cancer or...more

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Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of kno...more

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Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that jo...more

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A person's destiny often ends before his death.

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Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have t...more

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Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone,...more

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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re co...more