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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Cesare Pavese

You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
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
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work

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