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One does not kill oneself for ...

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

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A man is never completely alon...

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

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It is not that the child lives...

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

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Living is like working out a l...

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

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Woman gives herself as a prize...

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

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Reality is a prison, where one...

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

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Traveling is a brutality. It f...

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

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Childhood is not only the chil...

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

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The only joy in the world is t...

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

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The cadence of suffering has b...

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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The great lovers will always b...

The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her Ђ' otherwise they feel betrayed.

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VerrГ  la morte e avrГ  i tuoi...

VerrГ  la morte e avrГ  i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

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Whatever people may say, the f...

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

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Perfect behaviour is born of c...

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

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Don't mix wine and women....

Don't mix wine and women.

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Nowadays, suicide is just a wa...

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

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Now that I've seen what war is...

Now that I've seen what war is ... I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: 'And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?' I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.

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War makes men barbarous becaus...

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

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Are you or aren't you convince...

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

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What we desire is not to posse...

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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