We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESETo know the world, one must construct it.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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