"We obtain things when we no longer want them."
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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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"The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows."
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"Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next."
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"One must look for one thing only, to find many."
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"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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"The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal."
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"It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her."
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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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"But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting."
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"In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid."
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"But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever."
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"Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible."
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"Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?"
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"Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism."
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"Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time."
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"The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's."
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"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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"Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?"
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"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."
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