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

Cesare Pavese

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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
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
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
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 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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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
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 corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake

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