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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.

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We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
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
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.

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