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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves

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