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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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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
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
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
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity

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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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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