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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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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 don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself

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