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

Cesare Pavese

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time

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