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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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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity 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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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself

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