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The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first…

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“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,…

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“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so much pleasure as the sleep that followed it. She especially was affected. Whenever she stayed overnight in her rented room (which quickly became only an alibi for Tomas), she was unable to fall asleep; in his…

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“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's what enabled western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human designt, like a…

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The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

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Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have…

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“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.”

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“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born…

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Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left.

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“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to…

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“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several thousand years; the era of Greek antiquity for almost a thousand. In this respect, a single human life imitates the history of mankind; at first it…

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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

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“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret,…

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