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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

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
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
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 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
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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
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
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World

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