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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

Cesare Pavese

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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
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
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
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 only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young 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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

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