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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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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Generation Interest Problem Solve
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel 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
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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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

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