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"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."
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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."
"When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)"
"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."
"If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart."
"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."
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"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh."
"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."
"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."
"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
"To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts."
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
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