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

Cesare Pavese

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
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

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