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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

Cesare Pavese

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
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
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve

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