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335 Translator Quotes

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Harm Ends Feel Happy
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Movie Long Script Been
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Pine Item After World
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Mind Admirable Good Book
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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Tone Mind Gifted Author
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Means Class Know Letting
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Believe Lies Living Art
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Days Moments Remember
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Far Fast Fears Light
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Adversity Met Hath Own
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Tongue Ready Rather Hand
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Closing Dropped End Life
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Given Lessons Taken
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Always Between Body Clash
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Chain First Right Mistake
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Because Misery Does Love
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Alone Boy Company Grown
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cheapest Love Religions
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Ever Good Lacks Reason
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cannot Disposition Increase Only
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Find Look Many Must
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
Begin Joy Only World
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Ambition Inferiority Origin Otherwise
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Being Paid Luxury Starting
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Being Better Child Stops
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Absolutely Every Feeling Free
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Before Clever Enough Fall
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Forgotten Lies Life Memories
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Artists Bourgeois Monks State
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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Literature Most Agreeable Ignoring
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it

No-intelligent Idea General Acceptance
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My past is everything I failed to be.

Past Failed Be
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Ships Sailing Many Ports
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I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

Woken Early Time Ready
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

Never Love Anyone Idea
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

Rejected Understood Prostitute Prefer
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
In order Understand Destroyed Myself
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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

Nothing Something Want Dream
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I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
Life Came Found Reality
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I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Bear Wounds Battle Avoided
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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Value Things Last Intensity
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I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.
Never Done Dream Meaning
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We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Worship Perfection Because Reject
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To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Opinion Sell Yourself Exist
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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Die People Write Biography
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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
Know Yourself Badly Think
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Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

My-longing Whom Might Distracts
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But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

Perfect Putting Things Divine
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I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

Losing Taste Everything Finding
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