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

Cesare Pavese

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
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World

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