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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

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