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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
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
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State

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