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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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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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity 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 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
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

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