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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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

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