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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

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
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

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