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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

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He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

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Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.

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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

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And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

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Black one, black one, there was a white candle in your heart.

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Bite down on the bitter stem of your nectared...

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there is more blood than sweet juice always more blood—mister death goes indoors exhausted

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As the artist extends his world with...

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Don't lock me in wedlock, I want marriage, an encounter....

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Darling Death shouted in his ear,...

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I hear the tide turning. Last eager wave over- taken and pulled back by first wave of the ebb.

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Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

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'Living a life'— the beauty of deep lines dug in your cheeks.

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Last night as if death had lit a pale light...

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... asks what it's too late to ask: "Where is my life? Where is my life? What have I done with my life?"

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A letter with it discloses, in its words and between them,...

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... transform into our flesh our...

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he bowed and not flinching from her black breath gave her his arm....

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