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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.

Cesare Pavese

To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem

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