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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Cesare Pavese

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
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
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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

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