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Because you'd be running after your own unhappiness.
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Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.
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Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?
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Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Yet the more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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She too was standing in the lamp's raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.
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Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...
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Florentine... Florentine Lacasse... half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery, the young man murmured.
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Never in her life had any object, or friendship, or experience acquired value for her save through the eyes of others.
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"Don't preach," said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.
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He seemed to be witnessing with his own eyes the supreme bankruptcy of humanity. Wealth had spoken the truth that night on the mountain.
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Rose-Anna was tugging at the edge of her apron with a tired, futile gesture she had never made in the past – the grandmother's gesture.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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That was when she recognized love: this torture on seeing someone, the greater torture when he was out of sight, in short, a torture without end.
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
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Her shoulders sagging, her back hunched, her eyelids tired, Rose-Anna sewed for the feast, not daring even to sing for fear of frightening off her joy.
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When there was enough money for their needs, the ties between them had been strong, but once the money was lacking, what a strain was put on their love!
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Azarius, for his part, had not made her voyage to the depths of pain to understand that death and birth, in that place, have almost the same tragic meaning.
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Why, this man seemed barely older than himself, Emmanuel thought. He gave off a sense of almost irresistible vigor. Quite simply, he had at last become a man...
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He [Jean] still felt surges of generosity, and gave in to them if they didn't cramp his style. That was it. He could be kind if kindness caused him no problems.
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Why did she have to wake up this morning? Or ever! But especially this morning. Her stare took on a glint of panic. Then she thought: Oh! This is my wedding day!
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It had become a passion with him to satisfy his curiosity, the only impulse he did not try to master, probably because it seemed to be the basis of all self-cultivation.
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Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.
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It's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Born:
March 22, 1909
Died:
July 13, 1983
(aged 74)
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