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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Cesare Pavese

There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
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 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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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
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
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

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