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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
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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Descend Escape Sound
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember 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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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