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- People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.
- Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image…
- The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
- The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a…
- People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.…
- Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to…
- We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in…
- The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good…
- I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.
- For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is…
- Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a…
- 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…
- When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has…
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
- I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I…
- I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
- A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself,…
- Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our…
- Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against…
- what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty…
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