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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.

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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition

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