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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

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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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