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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

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
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself

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