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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

"A Very Easy Death

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There is an art to “catching a husband”: “keeping” him is a profession.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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That’s what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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A day when I do not write tastes of ashes.
It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.
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Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it make its way for me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
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