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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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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
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
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 never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction

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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