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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking 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
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
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
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
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
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
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself

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