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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
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
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
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay 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

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