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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.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality

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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