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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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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
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
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
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
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
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 only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search

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