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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

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
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
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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth

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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