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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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

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