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He suddenly recalled from Plat...

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

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The history of music is mortal...

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

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we might also call vertigo the...

we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

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The sound of laughter is like ...

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

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There is a secret bond between...

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

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Necessity knows no magic formu...

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

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From tender youth we are told ...

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?В...Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

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He Kept recalling her lying on...

He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

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She had an overwhelming desire...

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, 'You don't know how happy I am to be with you.' That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

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Love is a continual interrogat...

Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

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And I ran after that voice thr...

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.

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When the heart speaks, the min...

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

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Art is the human disposition o...

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

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she loved to walk down the str...

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

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it is wrong to chide the novel...

it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

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loves are like empires: when t...

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

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And what can life be worth if ...

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

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Why don't you ever use your st...

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?' she said. Because love means renouncing strength,' said Franz softly.

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Immortality no longer interest...

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

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My lifelong ambition has been ...

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

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