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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.

Cesare Pavese

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
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

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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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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