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

Cesare Pavese

You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity

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