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“I could feel another leaf falling from my heart, the passing of another year.”
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“Because God, you know, is a great lord, and that’s what being a lord means: to forgive!”
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“Woman is a fresh spring. You lean over her, you see your reflection and you drink; you drink until your bones crack.”
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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. And all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”
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“I've no time to lose. You're young, you can still afford to be patient. I can't. But I do declare, the older I get the wilder I become! Don't let anyone tell me old age steadies a man! Nor that when he sees death coming he stretches out his neck and says: Cut off my head, please, so that I can go to heaven! The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!"
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"No, I don't believe in anything. If I believed in man, I'd believe in God, and I'd believe in the devil, too."
— Jan 14, 2026 01:13PM
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"You drink the red juice and, lo and behold, your soul grows big, too big for the old carcass, it challenges God to a fight. Now tell me, boss, how does it happen?"
— Jan 14, 2026 01:12PM
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“If the scriptures had said: "Today, light is born," man's heart would not have leapt. The idea would not have become a legend and would not have conquered the world. They would merely have described a normal physical phenomenon and would not have fired our imagination—I mean our soul. But the light which is born in the dead of winter has become a child and the child has become God, and for twenty centuries our soul has suckled it….”
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