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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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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
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
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying

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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