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“Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them slumber within us, and worse, we let them die, rot, so much so that the generous…

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“Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.”

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“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in…

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“They felt a strange happiness, an urgent need to reveal their hearts to each other- the urgency of lovers, which is already a gift, the very first one, the gift of the soul before the body surrenders. 'Know me, look at me. This is who I am. This is how I have lived, this is what I have loved. And…

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“...for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”

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“Paris had its sweetest smell, the smell of chestnut trees in bloom and of petrol with a few grains of dust that crack under…

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“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.”

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“After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful…

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“Waiting is erotic”

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“After all, the three of us were young. It wasn’t just about the pleasure of the flesh. No, it wasn’t that simple. The flesh is easy to satisfy. It’s the heart that is insatiable, the heart that needs to love, to despair, to burn with any kind of fire…That was what we wanted. To burn, to be consumed, to devour…

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“This thing of Beauty is a Guilt forever.”

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