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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Cesare Pavese

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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World

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