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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover

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