Novels are longer than life.

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With renunciation life begins.

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Lovers should also have their days off.

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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

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