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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

Cesare Pavese

You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
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
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
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
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
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work

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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