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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.

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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
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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 can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young 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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time

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