Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

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Four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under.

First : look of the public

Second : to be looked at by many known eyes; happier than the first

Third : people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love; dangerous

Fourth : rarest; people who line in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present; dreamers

Which category do you belong to?


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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

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A question is like a knife that slices through the stage backdrop and gives us a look at what lies hidden behind it.

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The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

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How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

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He is a very intelligent man… haha because I think like him hihi… You understand this? I can be smiling at you, but wishing you death, no matter how near, how far, you can’t see into me…



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Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

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Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

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…the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…

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What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

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