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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
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work

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