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Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
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In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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Young men preen. Old men scheme.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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Never ask a bore a question.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
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Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
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Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
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Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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