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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.

Cesare Pavese

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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember 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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
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
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality

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