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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Cesare Pavese

It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
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
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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

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