"Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it."
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"The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish."
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"Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny."
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"The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come."
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"There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first."
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"Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast."
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"Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose."
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"Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live."
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"You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties."
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"From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette"
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"How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?"
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"You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches."
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"I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged."
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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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"We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts."
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"There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery."
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"A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be."
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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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"A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself."
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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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