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

Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
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

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