"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
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"Love is the cheapest of religions."
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"The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it."
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"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."
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"Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed."
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"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
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"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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"Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality."
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"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
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"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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"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
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"Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace."
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"Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference."
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"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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"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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"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."
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"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
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"Now that I've seen what war is, what civil 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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"What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence."
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"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
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