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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering

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