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We never remember days, only moments.

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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World

We never remember days, only moments.

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