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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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

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