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Why does a man who is truly in...

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be 'lifelong'? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

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The face of the night will be ...

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

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It is not the actual enjoyment...

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

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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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Don't mix wine and women....

Don't mix wine and women.

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Those philosophers who believe...

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

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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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You wait for nothing if not fo...

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

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You will hear words old and sp...

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

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Work alone isn't enough for me...

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

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A man succeeds in completing a...

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

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In the mental disturbance and ...

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

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The real affliction of old age...

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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Things are revealed through th...

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

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Misfortunes cannot suffice to ...

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

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The problem is not the harshne...

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

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There is something indecent in...

There is something indecent in words .

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