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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.

Cesare Pavese

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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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 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
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

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