It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three
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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
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