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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

Cesare Pavese

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
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 man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing

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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