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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese

We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search

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