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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

Cesare Pavese

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
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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