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Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.

Time River Destroy Fire
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Original Unfaithful Translation
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Reality Sense Real
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Talk Improve Silence
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Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Nothing Built Stone Sand
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is

Life Complicated Moment Man
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The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral

Art Writing Opinions Ephemeral
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry Oral Art Written
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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Problem Writing Casualty
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The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.

Existence Language Words
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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Human being Prefers Contours Heart
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Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

Thinking Desire Reality Ideas
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Man's real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years

Man's Treasure Mistakes Years
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Persistent ill-humour is all too clear an indication that someone is living contrary to his or her intended purpose.

Humour Living Purpose
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Tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

Tragedy Theater Heroic Reality
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With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

Morality Mistakes Instincts Love
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The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

Choice View Act Culture
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Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Hatred Feeling Extinction Values
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts

Words Man Conceal Thoughts
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Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Questions False Know Answer
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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Justification Existence Religions Death
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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time

Clear Lives End Time
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If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Live Human beings Power
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With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

Time Social evolution Conscience
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the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Human being Lack Egoism Born
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Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

Creating Stimulating Destroying
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Economic Power Political Governments
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In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

Feeling Heart Too much Little
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Citizens Obligation Involved Changes
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Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Dignity Price Life Meaning
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

Time Death Alive
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Jealousy Pain Feels Loves
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Indulge Sorrows Fury Despair
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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Something Posterity Fain
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Valuable Man Attention Infirmities
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Sunshine Smiles Humanity Life's
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Life Reading Useful Authors
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures

Blessings Pains Losses Patience
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness Life Love Hope
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Cheerfulness Health Mind Body
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Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Crime Contemtible World Inconsistency
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Easy Circumstances Enemies Innovations
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Courage Thing
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Man Consider Wants
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Health Cheerfulness Beget
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Music Good Mortals Heaven
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge Virtue Truly Raises
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Nothing Faith Observance Morality
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Artificial Intelligence Natural Stupidity
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We live as we dream--alone.

Live Dream Alone
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