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

Cesare Pavese

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
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
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
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
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
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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

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