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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young 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
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
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
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

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