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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese

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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve

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