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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Cesare Pavese

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
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
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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