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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

There is something indecent in words .

Cesare Pavese

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  There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

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  We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

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  Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

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  One must look for one thing only, to find many.

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  In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.

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  Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

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  It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

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  A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

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  Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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  A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

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  To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

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  Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

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  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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  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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  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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  The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

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