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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

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World

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