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- 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…
- 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…
- We never remember days, only moments.
- The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
- You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people,…
- The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
- 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…
- The only joy in the world is to begin.
- Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
- 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…
- There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
- There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
- One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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