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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

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