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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

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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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

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