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He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

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All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible ...more

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For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expr...more

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I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one a...more

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Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of u...more

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Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

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And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt ...more

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I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a ...more

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Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shive...more

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It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

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Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

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I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of exi...more

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When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pre...more

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Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

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At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.