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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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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
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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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
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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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself

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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