Even painful memories are ties that bind.

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But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes.

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History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.

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Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

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A man may ask anything of a woman, but unless he wishes to behave like a brute, he must make it possible for her to act in harmony with her deepest self-deceptions.

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one�s own pain weights so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, with someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

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I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

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Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

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Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

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