After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

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I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

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All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

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Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

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Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

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Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

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We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

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As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.

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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

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Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

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