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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
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
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide

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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