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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.

Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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
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
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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 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 must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying

A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.

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