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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

— Marguerite Duras

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  3. It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
  4. It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't neccesarily prove that you loved him.

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  • philosophy
  • time
  • waste

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