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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
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
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
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 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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

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