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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong

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