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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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering

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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