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But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Laughable Loves
Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security, and, What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
The Bell Jar
The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
The Dyer's Hand
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
The Prolific and the Devourer
Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
The Dyer's Hand
We are all children of Christ, through his grandson Rousseau. This is on our mother's side, also, on our father's date back to some clear pagan god from whom our near ancestors degenerated. The mother in us is more than the father. As in a house governed by women, we are outgoverned well.
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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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