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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Cesare Pavese

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember 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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

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