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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.

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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.

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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.

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