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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

The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
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
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound

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