"There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment."
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"I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself."
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"For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz."
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"I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me."
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"Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter."
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"Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework."
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"You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine."
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"I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too."
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"It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones."
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"Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly."
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"When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do."
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"Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance."
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"happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement."
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"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."
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"The happiness of others is never bearable for very long."
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"The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?"
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"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."
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"A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying."
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"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."
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"A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else."
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