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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation

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