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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.

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Suffering serves no purpose whatever.

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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

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What matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

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A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

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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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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

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