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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Cesare Pavese

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 behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself

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