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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

Cesare Pavese

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself

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