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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
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"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."
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"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."


"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."


"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."


"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."


"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."


"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."


"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."
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