"Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all."
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"You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring."
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"Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression."
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"I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate."
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"People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it."
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"You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal"
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"When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom."
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"Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth."
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"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.""
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"If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make."
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"People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives."
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"He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !"
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"Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet."
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"True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do"
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"Only children believe they're capable of everything."
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"We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched."
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"What hurts us is what heals us."
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"God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change"
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"You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points."
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"There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason."
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