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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Cesare Pavese

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman

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