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

Cesare Pavese

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
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking

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