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To be able to forget means sanity.

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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

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All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.

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Strength is an empty shell.

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Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

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Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

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I would rather be ashes than dust.

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It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

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There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointment s.

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Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.

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