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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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

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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