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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

Cesare Pavese

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
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

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