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- No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner…
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those…
- From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?Â…Betrayal means breaking ranks…
- She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,…
- There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments…
- This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew…
- To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their…
- She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
- There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to…
- To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man…
- Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are…
- Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
- Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more…
- The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat…
- I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable…
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