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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children.
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No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
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I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God .
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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