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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

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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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State

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