If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

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When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

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Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

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When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

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It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

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Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

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There is no forgiveness in nature.

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