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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
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

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