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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

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