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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

Cesare Pavese

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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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 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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence 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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich

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