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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself

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