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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

Cesare Pavese

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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin

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