"There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life."
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"What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it."
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"What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her."
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"Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man."
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"Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow."
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"Love is desire for knowledge."
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"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
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"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
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"Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition."
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"Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes."
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"A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work."
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"We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest."
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"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends"
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"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be."
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"Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next."
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"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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"When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end."
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"All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit."
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"I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company."
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"Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own."
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