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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."

"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."

"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."

"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."

"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."

"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."

"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."
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