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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Cesare Pavese

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
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
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth

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