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To know the world, one must construct it.

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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 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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom

To know the world, one must construct it.

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