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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Cesare Pavese

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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth

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