“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
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“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Parerga and Paralipomena
― Parerga and Paralipomena
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