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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

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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

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