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We were calling for manpower and people came.

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The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

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'Everything that is human looks like a special case'

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Cause and effect are never divided between two people

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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

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THANATOS AND EROS
the American for that is:
CASUAL SEX.

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Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon

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Life is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.

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Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

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To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us

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Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...

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Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness

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All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

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The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words

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Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

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I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

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Technology…the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.

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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?

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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.

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How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person

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Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect

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It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple

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The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

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Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight

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Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

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Overcoming prejudice: the only possible way through love, which creates no graven images.

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It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

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Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offence.

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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous

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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

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