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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party

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