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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

Cesare Pavese

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time

But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

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