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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
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
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

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