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"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
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"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
Art
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."
Love
"We can only learn to love by loving."
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"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
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"Only lies and evil come from letting people off."
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"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes."
Love
"The cry of equality pulls everyone down."
Equality
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
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