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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

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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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

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