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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Cesare Pavese

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
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
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion

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