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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese

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
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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

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