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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

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young 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
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World

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