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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

Cesare Pavese

There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking

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