"We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known."
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"curiosity is the beginning of wisdom."
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"It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it."
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"Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people."
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"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary."
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"When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers."
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"What you call types of mind are only mental ages."
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"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."
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"In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit."
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"Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion."
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"At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever."
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"I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women."
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"I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable."
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"Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about."
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"I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths."
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"Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible."
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"No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection."
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"He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient."
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"It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking."
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"No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love."
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