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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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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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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
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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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself

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