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  1. She was beautiful, with a beauty so severe and so solitary that at first it was startling. 'Ah! If only there were two of me,' she thought,…
  2. If I had amnesia, I'd be almost like other men. Perhaps I'd even be able to love you.
  3. Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades,…
  4. You made me come to Paris. You pestered me to start living again. Well, now it's up to you to make my life livable. You mustn't let three w…
  5. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
  6. I'm never afraid. But in my case it's nothing to be proud of.
  7. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human b…
  8. He walks in the street, a picture of modesty in his felt hat and his gabardine suit, and all the while he's thinking, 'I'm immortal.' The w…

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