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Love is desire for knowledge.

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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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work

Love is desire for knowledge.

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