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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself

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