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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
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
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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

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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