Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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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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There is something indecent in words .
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