All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...

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wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

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There is always something left to love.

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She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

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