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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
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

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