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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

All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
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
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
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
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit

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

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