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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

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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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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 do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share

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