One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives on

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death one dies one's life.

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All that I know about my life it seems I have learned in books.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Ah! yes I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.