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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Cesare Pavese

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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

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