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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.

Cesare Pavese

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 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
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
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
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
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 never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking

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