I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.
("Gourmet Rhapsody")
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If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner sea, we observe our various movements as if they belonged to someone else, and yet we admire their involuntary excellence.
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What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.
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How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.
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