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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
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When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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There is something indecent in words
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
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Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
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