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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

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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search

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