The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
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