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

Cesare Pavese

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
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
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point

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