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

Cesare Pavese

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
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
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
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
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State

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