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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Cesare Pavese

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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
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
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
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

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