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Ordinary people are sociable and complaisant just from the very opposite feeling;--to bear others' company is easier for them than to bear their own.
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It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.
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There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a man cannot forget,--but not himself, his own character.
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No man is so formed that he can be left entirely to himself, to go his own ways; everyone needs to be guided by a preconceived plan, and to follow certain general rules.
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The present alone is true and actual; it is the only time which possesses full reality, and our existence lies in it exclusively.
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The truth is, that our nature is essentially restless in its character: we very soon get tired of having nothing to do; it is intolerable boredom.