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Darling, my darling, don't thi...

Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

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The great European novel start...

The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

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Beauty has long since disappea...

Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

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...she merely wished to find a...

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

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Sensuality is the total mobili...

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

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We go through the present blin...

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.

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The longing for Paradise is ma...

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

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And there lies the horror: the...

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

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The only reason people want to...

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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Attaching love to sex is one o...

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

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Because beyond their practical...

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: t

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A man able to think isn't defe...

A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

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...people don't respect the mo...

...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste.

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No one can give anyone else th...

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.

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Revolution in Love'. Can you t...

Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

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what's the matter?' he asked ...

what's the matter?' he asked 'nothing' 'what do you want me to do for you?' 'i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older' what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.

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nothing yet. I've been waiting...

nothing yet. I've been waiting.' 'for what?' she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

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The source of anxiety lies in ...

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

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All previous crimes of the Rus...

All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

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The heaviest of burdens is sim...

The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

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

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