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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

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
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
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
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
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself

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