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Jealousy leaves no time to be bored; does it even leave time to grow old?

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You remind me of people who bring along a little box of cakes and leave it in the hall, saying to themselves: 'There'll be plenty of time to produce these later,' and then pick them up again when they go.

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Adventures happen to people who, by their composure, their unshakableness, and their scorn of the unusual may be said to deserve them. They leave little or no trace.

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I hate guests who complain of the cooking and leave bits and pieces all over the place and cream-cheese sticking to the mirrors.

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I would like to leave a great reputation among those creatures who having kept, on their fur and in their souls, the trace of my passage, madly hoped for a single moment that I belonged to them.

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