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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.

Loneliness

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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Hatred

3.9 · 55 votes · 173 reads

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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Imagination

4.5 · 61 votes

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Pain

3.4 · 44 votes · 171 reads

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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ''You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.''

Literature

4.4 · 60 votes

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Nature
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.
3.5 · 49 votes · 2 reads
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Feelings
Love is the cheapest of religions.
4.8 · 54 votes · 0 reads
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Feelings
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
3.7 · 30 votes · 80 reads
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Time
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest -thought, action -is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
5.0 · 10 votes · 91 reads
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Feelings
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of sufferin
4.5 · 63 votes · 162 reads
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Thought and Reason
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
4.5 · 32 votes · 93 reads
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Thought and Reason
We don't remember days; we remember moments.
3.6 · 49 votes · 190 reads
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Society
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
3.2 · 54 votes · 167 reads
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