"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you..."
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"Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter..."
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"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact,..."
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"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat...."
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"I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has..."
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"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm...."
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"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,..."
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"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and..."
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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies...."
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"Let's face it -- who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other..."
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"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only..."
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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye...."
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"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own..."
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"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have...."
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"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it...."
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"Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this..."
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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is..."
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"Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak...."
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"Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities...."
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"The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out..."
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"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots..."
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