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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.

Cesare Pavese

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
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
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
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself

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