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Cesare Pavese

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Closing, Dropped, Life, Masks, Party, Time

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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Brutality, Dream, Home, Imagine, Sleep, Travel

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Begin, Being Happy, Happiness, Inspirational, Joy, World

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Depression, Escape, Gauge, Gauges, Sound

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Avoiding, Free, Living, Though

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Alive, Begin, Good, Joy, World

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Without commenting on the legal aspects, which I'm not capable of doing, those are lifestreams and there are other companies that have done similar things. That makes me angry personally, not because of the money, but because of the deliberate failure to acknowledge work that we would have made freely available as academics.

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If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?

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The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

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