[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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