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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
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
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
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
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
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
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
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
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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point

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