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A person who has reached a certain level of understanding or maturity, will be ashamed to die. He would not want to leave the world. This is the first sign of the beginnings of understanding. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.

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1. Love is a drama of contradictions.

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