"Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing."
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"Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again."
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"When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust."
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"Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven."
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"I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it."
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"When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her."
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"Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go."
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"There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children."
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"War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values."
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"The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away."
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"Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always."
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