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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
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
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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