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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

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
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
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 face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word

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

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