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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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 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
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

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