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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Cesare Pavese

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State

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