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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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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
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
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
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
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself

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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