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» No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

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» We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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» We don't remember days; we remember moments.

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» Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

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» Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

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» All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

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» If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!

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» Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

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» To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

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» At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

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