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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

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