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

Cesare Pavese

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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself

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