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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

— Marguerite Duras

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

There is no vacation from love, it doesn't exist. Love, you must live it fully, with its boredom and all, there is no possible vacation from that.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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