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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

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
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
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
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World

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