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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.

Cesare Pavese

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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

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