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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself

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