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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
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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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself

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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