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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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