He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

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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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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

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

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

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my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house

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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

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

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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

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