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I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.


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I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.



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We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.



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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.



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If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.



To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.



So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.



Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.



I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.



Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.

Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.





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When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

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