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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Cesare Pavese

But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
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
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

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