Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

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Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

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Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

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Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

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Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

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When all else fails, philosophize.

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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

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You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.

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