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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.

Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End 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 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
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth

A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.

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