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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End 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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
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
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
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
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
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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 only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin

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