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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
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
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality

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