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"Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event."
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"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."

"Women are binding and men are commanding."

"And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!"

"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."

"When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going, men are more interested in where the woman has been."

"A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard."

"When it comes to men, I appreciate them, don't bash them and never love them."

"I've done nothing for the past five years but try to be the hero who protects her. The problem? Heroines don't need protecting."
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"The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters."

"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."

"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."

"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."

"After Chopin's death, Polish patriots cut up his body to take out his heart. They nationalized this poor muscle and buried it in Poland.A dead person is treated either as trash or as a symbol. Either way, it's the same disrespect to his vanished individuality."

"Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms ."

"Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs."

"He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few caresses and a lot of meaningless words), but her absolute absence was infinitely grand; when he imagined a girl buried in a field, he suddenly discovered the nobility of pain and the grandeur of love. But it was not only the absolute but also bliss he was looking for in his dreams of death."

"Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love."
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