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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

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There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
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
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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin

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