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Love is desire for knowledge.

Cesare Pavese

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
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
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
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering

Love is desire for knowledge.

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