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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.

Cesare Pavese

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
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
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
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy

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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