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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

Cesare Pavese

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

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