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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.
A man attaches himself to woman - not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.
The Woman Destroyed
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
The Mandarins
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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