I've often found myself ...

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.
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 Francoise Sagan

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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
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I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
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I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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