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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

Cesare Pavese

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion

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