I can, therefore I am.
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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.Simone Weil
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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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