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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
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

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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