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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man

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