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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

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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 dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

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