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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Cesare Pavese

We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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

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