"I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him."
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"As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping."
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"That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us."
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"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
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"...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all."
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"There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs."
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"we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations."
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"blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born."
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"Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle."
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"but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt."
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"It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene."
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"Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking."
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"Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious."
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"We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness"
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"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."
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"Death is the inventor of God."
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"doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time"
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"Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked."
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"I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do."
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"The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife."
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