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No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help...

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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

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Las cosas fluyen hacia donde tienen que fluir, y por más que te esfuerces e intentes hacerlo lo mejor posible, cuando llega el momento de herir a alguien lo hieres. La vida es así.

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Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

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It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

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I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

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My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.

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I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.

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Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

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I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.

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Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.

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She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

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I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi," Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

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Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY someth...

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Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn...

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Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

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A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

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