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who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?
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“Reflection poisons desire.”
― The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness
― The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness
“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”
― Oblomov
― Oblomov
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
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