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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Cesare Pavese

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom

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