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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
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
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
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
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
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

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

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