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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Cesare Pavese

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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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Generation Interest Problem Solve
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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

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