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

Cesare Pavese

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
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
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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