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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

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide

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