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All life is a struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur

All life is a struggle in the dark.

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