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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

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man

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