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Even more than wanting to be admired, he liked admiring.
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But then, to the obsessed collector, the appreciations of other people always seem off-key, withholding, never appreciative enough.
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Declining the Cavaliere’s second invitation to accompany him on a climb, Charles pleaded an intestinal weakness, the lack of a taste for danger.
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The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as in a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.
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any peasant knows that rotten wares are often sold under a good signboard;
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have to get behind the joke’s wheel and drive it properly without jamming the gears or running into a ditch.
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He could not live outside the summer of her smile. And
He could not live outside the summer of her smile.
When the right person does the wrong thing, it’s the right thing.
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A man who has to admire in order to desire is likely to have led a modest sexual life.
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He has so much to think about, and even more not to think about:
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How boring just to be a body.
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I am not liked in the neighborhood, nor would I think well of myself if I were.
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that deplorable race of people who are effusive about everything.
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While I would hardly deny that illusions are necessary for human life to be supportable, the sour sad tales of Christianity hold no charm for me.
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Talking with him was like talking with someone on a horse.
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Alas, it is very true that music destroys me—and what is worse, I love being destroyed.
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