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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World 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
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman

The only joy in the world is to begin.

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