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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Cesare Pavese

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
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
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom

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