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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

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
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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

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