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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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 search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

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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