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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

A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself

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