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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

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The trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.

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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

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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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There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children .

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There is something indecent in words .

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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

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To despise money, one must have plenty of it.

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