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Not believing in anything is also a religion .

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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
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
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

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