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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.

Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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
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
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
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
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner

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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