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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

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 world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror 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
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
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 richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich

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