Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.

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No, to produce ideas you don't have to be a saint. And anyway there are very few true intellectuals. The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.

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When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

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Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.

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As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.

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To write, you have to want something to survive you.

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I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

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How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.

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I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.

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You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.

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