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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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