"I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all."
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"A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings."
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"If money does not make you happy, give it back"
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"At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot."
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"You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying."
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"Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself."
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"Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies."
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"Add two letters two paris and it's paradise."
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"God does not believe in our God."
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"We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life."
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"Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it."
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"The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse."
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"How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey."
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"There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise."
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"Broken china lasts longer than unbroken."
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"It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country."
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"Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were."
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"The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring."
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"In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg."
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"How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!"
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