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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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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 don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves

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