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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Cesare Pavese

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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