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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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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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
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
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
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
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

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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