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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

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