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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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