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The really great writers are those whose thought occupies all the angles and the folds of their style.

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I imagine life to be like that. A long chain of moments. And I imagine that all that one can do is to try and live them one by one, without staying to think too much about those moments which have just passed or that are about to arrive.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. These are the three characteristics which the preliminary examination of the phenomenon of being allows us to assign to the being of phenomena.

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"So young," he said finally, "to be fighting so many."

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It's really important that you understand this. It's about what's in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is. Accepting it. It's about being true to it, never mind the pain. Because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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Not always is misoginy a clue of critical sensibility and intelligence. Sometimes it is only the fruit of homosexuality.

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Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.

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Words are tears stopped with writing.
Tears are words who have to urgently gush out.

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"Excellent! "I cried.
" Elementary," said he.