"Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves."
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"That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return."
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"We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible."
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"I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God."
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"It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison."
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"Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about."
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"Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else."
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"Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler."
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"There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues."
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"A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."
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"No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises."
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"The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal."
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"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd."
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"He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!"
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"There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye"
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"Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."
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"In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching."
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"A true masterpiece does not tell everything."
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"For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves."
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"Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret."
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