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

Cesare Pavese

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
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
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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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