Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be

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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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Religion is the opium of the poor.

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