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The only joy in the world is to begin.

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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking

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