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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.

Cesare Pavese

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
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
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
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
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.

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