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Don’t mix wine and women.

Cesare Pavese

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
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
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
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible

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